Graduate Backend Developer

Who we are

Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku.

About the role

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. The company is based in Strasbourg, France. The team is spread across multiple countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

What you'll do

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current

What we're looking for

• 0-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Bonus points

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Prior work breaking up a monolith

Benefits

Compensation: BDT 125,000-BDT 145,000 pcm

• Flexible hours
• Monthly internet allowance

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Roussel Systems EURL.