Junior Backend Developer

Role overview

Front Range Labs is hiring a Junior Backend Developer to work remotely from India. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. The operations 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 Jacksonville, the US. The team is spread across multiple countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in India, with a local contract and salary paid in Indian rupees. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern.

Day to day

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS

Qualifications

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• 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

Pluses

• Terraform or Pulumi
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB

Benefits

Rate: ₹23,50,000 - ₹27,00,000 per year

• Two weeks of paid leave at year end
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner
• Annual learning budget
• Flexible hours

Who we are

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

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Front Range Labs.