Backend Developer

Egreenservices; Fontana (CA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness perks

Career development support

Flexible hours

Job summary

Public Policy Institute is seeking a Backend Developer to contribute to engineering decisions and own critical services. Located in Fontana, CA, this role emphasizes hands-on ownership, mentorship, and growth in technology.

Qualifications

• Curiosity to read docs before asking questions.
• History of improving technology processes or workflows.
• 1+ years of Node.js experience (not merely exposure).
• Reliability that lets a manager stop checking in.
• Comfort presenting ideas to stakeholders at all levels.
• Design-led attitude and eagerness to learn new skills.
• Track record of delivering under deadline pressure.

Responsibilities

• Profile Spring Boot memory usage and debug leaks on Fontana nodes.
• Map data flow across Git services and identify leaks.
• Maintain the Culture/Technology service during Fontana traffic surges.

Skills

Curiosity

Process improvement

Node.js

Reliability

Stakeholder communication

Design mindset

Deadlines

Job description

Public Policy Institute is the kind of place where a junior's question can change the technology roadmap, and we want a Backend Developer who asks them. This junior opening gives you $69,000 - $103,000, hands-on ownership, and the mentorship to keep growing in technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Profile Spring Boot memory use and chase down the leaks crashing Fontana nodes
• Map data flow across Public Policy Institute's Git services and spot the leaks
• Keep the technology Cultural Awareness service humming through Fontana's holiday traffic surge
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Public Policy Institute users feel every click
• Own a technology service end to end, from Unit Testing schema to on-call rotation
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Spring Boot
• Bridge Git and MongoDB so the two halves of Public Policy Institute's platform finally talk

What You'll Bring

• The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking
• A history of leaving technology processes better than you found them
• 1+ years of Node.js reps, not just Node.js exposure
• The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in
• Comfortable presenting ideas to stakeholders at every level
• A design-led attitude and eagerness to learn new skills
• Track record that proves you can deeply-bought-in ship under deadline pressure

Quietly, from Fontana, Public Policy Institute has become the scrappy-but-steady technology partner that CA's most demanding teams refuse to replace. Kindness and high standards live together comfortably on this gloriously-unglamorous Fontana team.

We reward performance-driven contributors with $69,000 - $103,000, flexible hours, wellness perks, and meaningful career development support.