Junior Backend Developer - Java

Institutional clients include pension funds, endowments and insurance companies. FA Payments manages assets for more than 200,000 clients through 120 offices.

The role:

Looking for a Junior Backend Developer - Java who wants to stay somewhere for a while. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. You can work from home anywhere in India. We have no office requirement. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Key responsibilities:

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python

What you need:

• 0-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

Preferred qualifications:

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Terraform or Pulumi

₹10-13 LPA

What we offer:

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Learning budget
• Gratuity
• Group term life insurance
• Internet reimbursement

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Start: Immediately.

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