Junior Software Developer - Infrastructure

A bit about us:

Headquartered in Mumbai since 2003, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. We started in 2003 and have grown to about 400 people. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

Position summary:

This is a newly created position. The Junior Software Developer - Infrastructure will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote within India. The team meets in Mumbai once a quarter, travel covered. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

What you'll be doing:

• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.

Skills and experience:

• 1+ years of professional software development experience.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.

What we offer:

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Flexible hours.
• Group term life insurance.
• Internet reimbursement.

Start: Immediately.

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