Junior Backend Developer (Remote)

About us

Everyone has access to the analytics dashboard, and weekly numbers are posted in Slack. Orders are packed by hand for two carrier pickups a day, and customer emails go to whoever is free. Support shifts are shared, so engineers spend a few hours a quarter answering customer tickets.

About the role

Looking for a Junior Backend Developer (Remote) who wants to stay somewhere for a while. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Our headquarters is in Peoria, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. We hire in India through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

What you'll do

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.

What we're looking for

• 1-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.

Compensation and benefits

• Performance bonus.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• 24 days paid time off.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Company laptop.

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

Start: Immediately.

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