The Role:
Fetch's next step in evolving the shopping experience will require growing the engineering team. We're looking forBackend Engineer Apprenticeto contribute immediately and work on real features that impact our customers and partners. You will build highly performant backend services to integrate seamlessly with our data stores, message queues, mobile and web platforms, and other systems. You'll be working on a small, multi-functional team that may include other engineers, a designer, product manager, data scientist and other roles. Success in this role requires the ability to take on challenging problems and design & develop an amazing solution with light mentorship of an experienced team member. You must be able to work full time hours immediately upon being hired, we are not hiring for the future, we are hiring for today.
The ideal candidate:
High level languages (Go, Java, Python, Node.js)
An understanding of functional or object-oriented programming
Ability to learn quickly
A desire to work in a fast-paced and challenging environment
Effective communication, including the ability to translate and explain technical issues to non-technical team members
You have experience with:
Object oriented or functional programming languages
Relational and eventually consistent databases (MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL)
Version control system (Git)
Test writing and quality assurance
System Design
Bonus Points:
Full-stack development (Kotlin, Javascript, React, Swift)
Messages queue and event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Redis Streams)
Continuous development
In-memory data stores and caches (Redis, Memcache)
Distributed systems
Apprenticeship Facts:
This is a 3 month program where you will be given challenging and meaningful work
You will gain incredible experience and grow as an engineer
There is no expectation that this role will convert to a full time employee
$40 per hour
40 hours per week of work, minimum
There are no health benefits during the apprenticeship
We don't sponsor H1Bs on an Apprenticeship due to legal limitations
Get an onboarding buddy on your 1st day
FREE: Mac laptop, monitors, etc. whatever is needed to be successful!
Work on the same projects as our perm employees, you are not treated any differently!