Junior Backend Developer

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The position

The previous person in this role moved to another team. Northmoor is hiring for the Junior Backend Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Our headquarters is in Utrecht, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Bangladesh, with a local contract and salary paid in taka. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

Your responsibilities

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.

What you need

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

Nice to have

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Prior work breaking up a monolith.

Salary: BDT 165,000 - BDT 210,000 per month

Pay and benefits

• Annual team retreat.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Flexible hours.

Please include your notice period and salary expectations.

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Flexible.

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