Junior Backend Engineer - Data Ingestion

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a Junior Backend Engineer to join the Data Ingestion Team within the Platform Engineering Domain. This is an exciting opportunity for an early-career engineer to grow their skills building high-throughput data processing systems.

Platform Engineering's mission is to provide trusted, performant, and self-service platforms. As part of this, the Data Ingestion team is responsible for building and maintaining the pipelines that power our bank's data ecosystem, focusing on reliability, scalability, and clean engineering practices.

The ideal candidate is an eager learner who is excited to dive into new technologies and solve technical challenges with the support of a senior team. We value engineers who are self-driven, seek constructive feedback, and thrive in a collaborative environment that prizes technical growth.

In this role, you will

Software Development: Work under the guidance of senior engineers to develop and maintain backend services for our data ingestion platform.

Engineering Support: Support the team in applying strong engineering practices including writing automated tests, participating in code reviews, and maintaining observability.

Proactive Learning: Proactively ask questions, propose small improvements, and collaborate with the team to deliver clean, testable code for our platform services.

Knowledge Sharing: Participate in technical discussions, contribute to internal documentation, and help us maintain a transparent knowledge base.

Development Contribution: Contribute to infrastructure development tasks and participate in technical demos to showcase your work.

Shadow and Respond: Shadow on-call rotations and assist in troubleshooting efforts to learn incident response protocols.

Observability Support: Learn to maintain and use observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing) to help the team track platform SLOs and availability.

What you need to be successful

Background and Skills

Strong foundat