Junior Backend Developer

Talus employs 2,400 people across engineering hubs in Kaunas and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Overview:

Talus is hiring for the Junior Backend Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. This position is on site in Kaunas.

Job duties:

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.

Minimum qualifications:

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Preferred:

• Terraform or Pulumi.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.

€2,450 - €2,800 per month

What we offer:

• Private medical care.
• Extra annual leave days.
• Language courses.

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

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Start: Immediately.

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