Junior Backend Developer

A bit about us

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

We're looking for a Junior Backend Developer to join our team. This is a remote role. The Data Platform team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. We are headquartered in Round Rock and have been hiring remotely since 2020. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in Chile, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT.

Main duties

• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.

What you'll need

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.

Preferred qualifications

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.

Perks and benefits

Compensation: CLP 3,900,000 - CLP 4,800,000/month

• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.
• Company laptop.
• Flexible hours.
• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Paid parental leave.
• Home office setup budget.

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Start: Within 30 days.

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