Junior Backend Engineer

Who we are

Most of what we build is back-office software for property managers, including lease tracking, work orders and tenant payments. Founded in 1996, we now have 110 employees. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

What this job is

We are adding a Junior Backend Engineer to our Core API team. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

In your first few months you will

Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks. Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups. Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't. Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers. Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning. Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.

Requirements

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. Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms. Clear written communication, including design docs. Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production. Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.

Why work with us

Health insurance. 401(k) with 4% match. Paid holidays. Dental insurance. Professional development budget.

Start: Immediately.

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