Junior Backend Engineer

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones.

Overview

We're looking for a Junior Backend Engineer to join our team in Jacksonville. 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 is an in-person role at our Jacksonville location.

What you'll be doing

• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS

Minimum qualifications

• 0-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Preferred

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems

Compensation: $104,000-$140,000 a year DOE.

Pay and benefits

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• Three weeks of PTO to start
• Professional development budget
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Cell phone reimbursement

We read every application and reply within about a week.

No agencies or third-party recruiters, please.

Start: Within 30 days.

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