About the Role
We're looking for a motivated and technically strong Junior Software Engineer to join our engineering team. You'll work on robust systems and workflows that enable internal users and the overall development of the product. You will build backend services, integrate with external APIs, and collaborate with the team to meet their use cases. This is a hands-on role where you'll have the agency to think and act to drive fast/iterative progress across multiple fronts.
What You'll Do
• Design and build backend services and APIs that are accessible, fault-tolerant, and well-tested.
• Integrate with third-party and internal APIs to extend product capabilities.
• Work with AI agents and LLM-powered workflows, applying sound engineering practices (testing, validation, guardrails) to ensure robustness.
• Write and reason through unit and integration tests, thinking critically about coverage, edge cases, and failure modes.
• Collaborate with senior engineers on system design, service orchestration, and architectural decisions.
• Take ownership of small-to-medium scoped features end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring.
• Work with data stores and infrastructure tooling relevant to the stack.
What We're Looking For
Must Have
• 0–2 years of professional experience or a solid portfolio of shipped personal or academic projects with a transparent backend focus (bonus if live or deployed).
• Proficiency in Python and/or a solid grasp of an end-to-end backend stack; full-stack experience is a plus.
• Experience integrating with external APIs (REST, GraphQL, webhooks, etc.).
• A testing mindset — ability to think about how to validate, test, and harden implementations rather than just writing code that works on the happy path.
• Comfort working in a cooperative codebase using Git and standard development workflows.
Good to Have
• Hands-on familiarity with common backend tooling: SQL/NoSQL databases, Redis (caching), message queues (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ, S