Junior Backend Developer, Remote

A bit about us:

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. We started in 2009 and have grown to about 80 people. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

About the role:

Nesbitt Apps is hiring a Junior Backend Developer, Remote to work remotely from Mexico. The Orders team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote, open to candidates across Mexico. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

Your responsibilities:

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.

Required qualifications:

• 0-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.

Desirable:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith.
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• Terraform or Pulumi.

Pay and benefits:

Compensation: MXN 38,000 - MXN 51,000/month

• Private health insurance.
• Training budget.
• Home office equipment.

Please submit your CV in English.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Start: Flexible.

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