Graduate Backend Developer (Remote)

Jacksonville Data employs 51,600 people across engineering hubs in Jacksonville and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

Overview:

We are adding a Graduate Backend Developer (Remote) to our Payments team. The Payments team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Our headquarters is in Jacksonville, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. We engage team members in Australia as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

What you'll do:

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.

Minimum qualifications:

• 0-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.

Pay: $106,000 - $124,000 pa

What we offer:

• Annual rate review.
• Company laptop.
• Paid time off.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Jacksonville Data.