Junior Backend Engineer

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in New York City, New York and two nearshore delivery centers. More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

Position summary

We're looking for a Junior Backend Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Job duties

• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.

The base pay range for this position is $111,000 - $151,000 annually. Actual pay depends on experience, skills and location.

Why work with us

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Home office stipend.

Start: Flexible.

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