Junction - Software Engineer, Backend
Requirements
• Startup engineering experience where you influenced what to build, not just how to build it • Bonus: you’ve built something from 0 → 1 • Designing and building APIs • Working with distributed systems, queues, services • Debugging complex production issues • Ability to turn messy or unclear problems into a clear plan • Comfortable working primarily on backend, with some full-stack work when needed • Strong product judgment - within a clear product direction • Fast iteration based on feedback and metrics • Comfortable working in a domain with hard constraints and complex real-world edge cases • You don’t need to tick every box to fit in here. If the problems we’re solving genuinely interest you and you know you can contribute, we’d love to talk. • How you'll be compensated • Salary: £90K - £130K + equity (doe + location) • Your salary is dependant on your location and experience level, generated by our salary calculator. Read more in our handbook here. • Generous early stage options (extended exercise post 2 years employment) - you will receive 3 offers based on how much equity you'd like • Regular in person offsites, last were in Morocco and Tenerife • Bi-weekly team happy hours & events remotely • Monthly learning budget of $300 for personal development/productivity • Flexible, remote-first working - including $1K for home office equipment • 25 days off a year + national holidays • Healthcare cover depending on location • Oh and before we forget: • Backend Stack: Python (FastAPI), Go, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud BigTable, etc), Temporal Cloud • Frontend Stack: TypeScript, Next.js • API docs are here: https://docs.junction.com/ • Company handbook is here with engineering values + principles • Important details before applying: • We only hire folks physically based in GMT and EST timezones - more information here. • We do not sponsor visas right now given our stage
Responsibilities
• Building and scaling our health & fitness device integrations and the Junction Continuous Query system: Designing reliable, well-structured backend services that ingest, process, and serve high-volume medical, health, and wearable data. • Improving reliability, performance, and fault tolerance: Work with backend service infrastructure, data pipeline and durable workflows for a wide variety of use cases. • Owning full-stack features: Taking rough problems, shaping the approach, and shipping robust backend solutions. • Tackling ambitious problems: You’ll be breaking down technical challenges that haven’t been done before in healthcare, we need you to be extremely product minded with every line of code you write • Iterating quickly: ship → learn → refine with a strong backend engineering mindset.
Benefits
• Location: Fully remote (GMT timezone) • Location: • Why we need you • Why we need you • Our small (for now) but mighty 6-person engineering team is tackling big, ambitious problems across Health & Fitness Devices and Lab Testing. We’re already: • Streaming timeseries data from 3M+ health and fitness devices every second • Helping major digital health companies deliver 4M+ lab tests across all 50 US states • Saving millions of patients thousands of dollars • Now we are aiming even higher: extracting actionable insights from the tens of billions of data points we ingested every month to help improve patient outcome: • Get excited about shipping features that help detect early signals of chronic diseases and enable early interventions. • Are curious enough to build and scale for the data arteries — the millions of device data connections (and growing!) — flowing into the pumping heart that is the Junction Continuous Query system • Obsess over building fault-tolerant backends and clean, well-designed APIs • Ask the right questions to turn rough ideas into reliable production software • Stay pragmatic while navigating domain experts, constraints, and real-world edge cases • Your salary is dependant on your location and experience level, generated by our salary calculator. Read more in our handbook here. • Generous early stage options (extended exercise post 2 years employment) - you will receive 3 offers based on how much equity you'd like • Regular in person offsites, last were in Morocco and Tenerife • Bi-weekly team happy hours & events remotely • Monthly learning budget of $300 for personal development/productivity • Flexible, remote-first working - including $1K for home office equipment • 25 days off a year + national holidays • Healthcare cover depending on location • Oh and before we forget: • Backend Stack: Python (FastAPI), Go, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud BigTable, etc), Temporal Cloud • Frontend Stack: TypeScript, Next.js • API docs are here: https://docs.junction.com/ • Company handbook is here with engineering values + principles • Important details before applying: • We only hire folks physically based in GMT and EST timezones - more information here. • We do not sponsor visas right now given our stage
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