Junior Backend Developer (APIs)

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 1979, we now have 2,000 employees.

About the role

Prairieside is hiring a Junior Backend Developer (APIs) to work remotely from Bangladesh. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. The company is based in New York City, the US. The team is distributed across several countries. We hire in Bangladesh through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

What you'll do

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.

Minimum qualifications

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.

Nice to have

• Terraform or Pulumi.
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.

BDT 135,000 to BDT 165,000 a month

Compensation and benefits

• Annual learning budget.
• Company laptop.
• Home office setup budget.
• Performance bonus.
• Flexible hours.
• Co-working space stipend.
• 20 days paid time off.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Within 30 days.

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