Junior Backend Engineer

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. Customers who call us usually reach someone who wrote the code they are asking about. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

We are adding a Junior Backend Engineer to our operations team. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. This role is fully remote within the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

In this role you will:

• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• 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.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.

What we're looking for:

• 0-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills.

Nice to have:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith.
• Terraform or Pulumi.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.

Compensation and benefits:

• Referral program.
• Home office stipend.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

New hires usually start two to three weeks after accepting an offer.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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