Junior Java Engineer (Poland only)

Our partner is one of the largest retail e-commerce companies in North America, serving millions of customers every year. You’ll join the Enterprise Payments and Gift Card Team, which sits at the core of Nordstrom’s checkout and post-purchase experience.
The platform processes millions of transactions and billions of dollars annually, enabling seamless omnichannel payments, gift cards, refunds, and cancellations. This is a great opportunity to learn how large-scale, high-availability payment systems are built and operated in production.

Responsibilities

• Participate in agile ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives).
• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs under guidance from senior engineers.
• Write clean, maintainable, and secure code for RESTful and event-driven systems.
• Collaborate on designs and understand how individual components fit into larger systems.
• Create and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, basic end-to-end).
• Monitor and help troubleshoot services using logs, metrics, and dashboards.
• Learn and follow engineering best practices and coding standards.
• Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback.

Skills Required

• 1–2 years of experience in software development (or strong internships / projects).
• Solid understanding of:
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Data structures and basic algorithms
• Experience with Java or another object-oriented language.
• Basic familiarity with:
  • REST APIs
  • Backend frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot)
• Understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Exposure to cloud concepts (AWS is a plus).
• Willingness to learn CI/CD, monitoring, and distributed systems.