Graduate Backend Developer - Remote

Meadowhaven HQ operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month. More than 350 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

Role overview:

Looking for a Graduate Backend Developer - Remote who wants to stay somewhere for a while. The Payments team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. This role is fully remote within Poland. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility.

Day to day:

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.

Required qualifications:

• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred qualifications:

• Terraform or Pulumi.
• Prior work breaking up a monolith.
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.

Pay: PLN 10,500 - PLN 13,000 monthly

Perks and benefits:

• Flexible hours.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

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