Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Summit Professional Education is a national leader in providing high-quality exam prep and continuing education for various professionals. They are seeking a Junior Backend Developer to build and maintain REST APIs, migrate acquired company sites, and support integrations with third-party services while actively using AI tools.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain REST APIs supporting Summit's course platform, checkout flow, and user experience
- Write and maintain SQL against Aurora RDS, including queries, schema changes, and data integrity work
- Migrate acquired company sites off WordPress and into Summit's platform
- Support integrations with third-party services including Recurly, NetSuite, Stripe, and HubSpot
- Work with AWS services including Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, and API Gateway
- Collaborate with frontend developers (Vue/Nuxt) to connect UI to backend services
- Use AI coding tools actively and deliberately to increase your output and code quality
- Document what you build and what you learn
Skills
- 1-3 years of experience writing backend code in a production environment
- Actively uses AI tools (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) as part of your daily workflow, not occasionally, but as a core part of how you work
- Can point to specific examples of how AI has made you faster, caught bugs, or helped you tackle something beyond your experience level
- Self-driven. You manage your own work, ask good questions, and can learn on the fly
- Strong communicator in a remote, async environment
- A genuine desire to grow quickly
- Solid foundation in Java and Springboot; Node.js and JavaScript experience are a plus
- Experience developing and consuming REST APIs
- Experience writing and maintaining SQL
- Some exposure to cloud services or CI/CD pipelines
- WordPress familiarity, not for building but for understanding and migrating data
- Organized, detail-oriented, and communicates clearly in writing
- Fit with Summit company values: Solution & Results Oriented, Team Oriented, Accountable & Reliable, Consumer Focused, Integrity
- Nice to have front end skills: Vue, Nuxt.js
Benefits
- Fully remote position
- Smaller company feel, larger company professionalism
- Competitive salary
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (with strong company contribution)
- PTO and Paid Holiday Schedule
- 401k with Company Match
Company Overview
Summit Professional Education continuing education workshops for allied health and special education professionals. It is a sub-organization of Avathon Capital. It was founded in 2004, and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.summit-education.com.