Junior Backend Engineer

About us:

Our product started as a side project in 2019 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in California. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

About the role:

Catawba Cloud is looking for a Junior Backend Engineer to join a small, steady team. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on.

What you'll work on:

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python

About you:

• 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
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs

Compensation and benefits:

$118,000 - $138,000/year

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid holidays
• Professional development budget
• Annual bonus
• Employee discount
• Cell phone reimbursement

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Immediately.

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