Graduate Backend Developer

About us

RL Wealth Management is an independent wealth management firm advising families, business owners and retirees. Clients pay a flat annual fee, and the firm takes no commissions.

Looking for a Graduate Backend Developer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. The Notifications team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. The company is based in Cardiff, the UK. The team is spread across multiple countries. We hire in Bangladesh through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Working hours overlap with UK business hours.

Day to day

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.

Required qualifications

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.

Compensation and benefits

Pay: BDT 110,000 to BDT 145,000 a month

• 20 days paid time off.
• Annual learning budget.
• Paid sick days.
• Company laptop.
• Wellness allowance.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at RL Wealth Management.