Graduate Backend Developer, Ruby on Rails

About the role

Jug Systems is looking for a Graduate Backend Developer, Ruby on Rails to join a small, steady team. The Orders team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote, open to candidates across Slovenia. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.

Who you are

• 0-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.

Bonus points

• Prior work breaking up a monolith.
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.

What you get

Compensation: €1,850 - €2,300 per month

• Private medical care.
• Flexible hours.
• Language courses.
• Multisport card.
• Training budget.

Company overview

Jug Systems builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors. We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers.

Shortlisted candidates will hear from us within two weeks.

Start: Within 30 days.

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