Junior Backend Developer (Kotlin)

Company overview:

Most clients live within an hour's drive and come in for reviews twice a year. Founded in 2010 by an advisor who left a large brokerage to go independent.

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Junior Backend Developer (Kotlin). You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Remote, open to candidates across India. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Main duties:

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling

You'll need:

• 1-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• 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

Preferred qualifications:

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

Benefits:

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Learning budget
• Flexible hours

Start: Within 30 days.

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