Junior Engineer

Raidiam’s server-side team builds and runs the back-end services for Raidiam Connect, the ecosystem trust control system that digital identity ecosystems around the world rely on.

As a Junior Software Engineer you will work in the server-side team, primarily on our Java and Go services, as well as on infrastructure definition in terraform, and API definitions in OpenAPI, taking features and fixes from ticket to production with more experienced engineers around you to support you. The work is highly collaborative, the APIs we build are the contract other teams inside and outside of the company depend upon, so you will be in regular contact with product managers, UI developers and customer-facing colleagues, and with the people who operate the live environments. LLM-based coding assistants are a standard part of the team’s toolkit and will be part of yours.

• Actively learn and adopt the technology and tools defined by the team, building genuine working fluency in both primary languages.

• Use LLM-based coding assistants as a routine part of how you work and take full responsibility for everything you submit: understand it, test it, and be able to explain and defend it in review.

• Write and maintain the automated tests, database migrations and API specification changes that go with your work, so that a change is finished when it is safely in production rather than when it compiles.

• Learn quickly from the engineers around you and consistently step up when it is required, and as you find your feet, proactively support other team members and help them to be successful.

• Contribute to code reviews as a junior engineer, to both help your learning process and because extra attention on our deliveries is always good.

• Help keep the products you contribute to healthy: investigate defects raised against them, help diagnose problems in deployed environments, and escalate clearly and early when an issue is beyond your scope.

• Take an active part in planning and estimation, and communicate progress, risks and blockers clearly.

• A working understanding of relational databases and SQL: able to read a schema, write basic queries and reason about a data model.

• Comfortable with HTTP and REST APIs

• Writes automated tests as a normal part of completing a piece of work, not as an afterthought.

• Everyday fluency with version control (Git), and familiarity with code review and continuous integration.

• Practical experience using LLM-based coding assistants, with the judgement to verify what they produce, the willingness to reject it when it is wrong, and the openness to be clear about what was generated.

• Able to take a well-defined piece of work and see it through to production, asking for direction when it is needed, and communicating clearly with the wider team while work is in progress

• A supportive and collaborative approach to working in a team: learns quickly from others, asks for help early, offers it readily, and both gives and receives code review well.

• Clear written and spoken English, much of our work is documented, reviewed asynchronously and shared with external ecosystem participants and regulators. As we are a globally distributed company with fully remote working practices, communication is key.

Desirable

• Experience with Micronaut, Spring Boot or a comparable JVM framework.

• Experience with infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform.

• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JSON Web Tokens, mutual TLS or X.509 / PKI concepts.

• Experience with testing tools in the Java and Go ecosystems