Junior Backend Developer

About us:

Small accounting firms in Minnesota use our engagement letter and e-signature tool, and most heard about us from a colleague. We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios.

What this job is:

Saddleforge Labs is looking for a Junior Backend Developer to join a small, steady team. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Employment is through our payroll partner in India. Salary is paid monthly in Indian rupees. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

Day to day:

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.

About you:

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

What you get:

• 20 days paid time off.
• Home office setup budget.
• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Flexible hours.
• Company laptop.
• Monthly internet allowance.

Start: Immediately.

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