Junior Backend Developer (Java Engineer)

Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Job Category: Engineering
Job Type: Full Time Global Contractor
Salary Range: Salary starting @ PHP 72k /month
Schedule: 10:00 PM - 6:00 AM Philippines Time 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time - U.S.
Experience Level: Junior Level
Benefits: 100% Remote Collaborative Workplace Paid Company Holidays Professional Growth Advancement Technology Trainings

Your New Career Opportunity Awaits!

WorkfromPH with its client is looking for a Java Engineer to join its growing team as a Junior Backend Developer for its SaaS product, which is available on web, iOS, and Android. Open for Philippines-based Java Engineers and Backend Developers.

About the Hiring Company

The hiring company is a SaaS learning solutions provider with a growing presence in the healthcare, technology education, and government sectors. Mobile learning has been proven to increase learners’ motivation and engagement while improving knowledge retention and skills acquisition. Our Capillary platform helps organizations utilize these benefits and turn training into action by providing standards-based, high-quality training at the learners’ fingertips.

At our company, we’re serious about our work but don’t take ourselves too seriously. We hire smart, talented, inquisitive people who want to learn, have fun, and build great services and products for our customers. If you join our 100% remote team, you’ll appreciate colleagues who treat each other and our clients respectfully, work hard, and have fun together.

Who You Are

You have a solid understanding of developing SaaS platforms and workflows surrounding code security, testing, and systems design. You are excited about building and sustaining great applications written in Java and are comfortable writing code every day.

You think critically and focus on the longevity and maintainability of the code you write. You enjoy working with various server components, mostly exposing HTTP REST APIs. You are familiar with Spring boot Java applications and can write unit tests, integration tests, and application code. Extra points if you are familiar with and prepared to deploy containerized software to cloud infrastructures like AWS. You’re excited to participate in ensuring that builds are running and the web application is performing optimally.

Your Role and Key Responsibilities

As a Junior Backend Developer, you will be responsible for the following objectives:

  • You will design and develop new microservices that are highly scalable
  • You will identify production issues with the existing services and provide solutions
  • You will ensure that your code is well-written and properly tested
  • You will participate in ensuring that builds are running and web applications are running smoothly in production
  • You will participate in daily stand-up meetings
  • You will write documentation for the API clients
  • You will help other developers through feedback and code reviews

Your Qualifications and Competencies

To excel in this role, you must possess the following qualifications:

  • BS Degree in Computer Science, or related field
  • 3+ years of professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience with Java
  • REST API development experience
  • Spring Framework experience (Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring MVC)
  • Unit and Integration testing experience with JUnit 4+

*Preferred Additional Skills:

  • Deploy software in AWS, in particular using Elastic Container Service, Lambda, and Elastic Beanstalk
  • Familiarity with functional programming (Java 11+)
  • Knowledge in Learning Technology
  • Experience with TypeScript or EcmaScript (ES6 or the latest should be fine)
  • Experience handling Style with CSS, SCSS, BootStrap, or similar

Apply Now and Level Up Your Career

Ready to take your career to the next level and make an impact in a growing SaaS company? Then you are somebody we need to know. We encourage you to apply today and take the first step towards your new, innovative journey- all while enjoying the flexibility of working remote! Simply upload your resume below.

For best consideration, connect with our team by emailing us why you are the ideal candidate for this position. Email us at jobs@workfromph.com with a subject line: Hello! I’m Your Next Junior Developer” – [Your Complete Name]

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