Junior Backend Engineer

Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Nashville and several other countries. Since 1988, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing.

Overview:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Junior Backend Engineer. 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 team is spread across 11 countries. Headquarters is in Nashville. We hire in France through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

Key responsibilities:

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS

Required qualifications:

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Nice to have:

• Terraform or Pulumi
• Prior work breaking up a monolith
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems

Perks and benefits:

• Annual learning budget
• Annual salary review
• Wellness allowance
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner
• Monthly internet allowance

Start: Immediately.

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