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.

Overview

We are adding a Junior Backend Developer to our Platform team. The Platform team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. You will need to be available during UK office hours, at least until 3:00 PM GMT.

Your responsibilities

• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS

Minimum qualifications

• 0-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• 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
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

Preferred qualifications

• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Annual rate review
• Flexible hours

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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