Junior Software Engineer -- Services

## About Minds Ignited Minds Ignited is a software services company — we solve real problems for real customers. If they need tooling, we build tools. If they need front-end or microservice work, we define it and build it. Whatever the problem or idea, we figure out how to ship it. Because the work shifts with each customer, you'll see more variety in a year here than in three at a shop building the same feature over and over. We're small and close-knit, so your work ships and matters from week one — no backlog purgatory, no corner to disappear into. ## What You'll Do - Build and maintain backend services in Java, Spring, and Gradle, and work in • TypeScript where the frontend meets our services. - Use PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch as the data layer behind that work. - Take a feature from a rough description to working, tested code — asking good questions along the way. - Debug real problems, including the ones that don't surrender to the first search result. - Take part in code review, both giving and receiving. - Get hands-on with how we run things — Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines — learning the stack alongside the team. - Grow into new languages: there's room to pick up Go and Python as the work calls for it. ## How We Work With AI We want you using AI coding tools — they're part of how good software gets built now. What we hire for is the judgment on top of them: knowing what to ask, catching the tool when it's confidently wrong, and owning the result either way. "The AI wrote it" isn't an explanation for code you can't walk us through — but if you can drive these tools hard • and defend every line, you'll fit right in. ## What We're Looking For - Solid fundamentals in Java, plus working comfort with TypeScript (or the clear ability to pick it up quickly). - The four things that predict a junior's success: you can read code you didn't write, • write code that works, think through a problem when the path isn't obvious, and • start things yourself without being handed each step. - Working comfort with REST APIs and SQL fundamentals (PostgreSQL or any relational database). - A CS degree, a bootcamp, or a self-taught background with a portfolio — we care that you can do the work, not which path you took. - Roughly 0–2 years of experience; internships and side projects count. - Local to the Las Vegas valley and open to occasional in-person time (hybrid; the cadence is flexible). - Bonus, not required: GraphQL, WebSockets, or Elasticsearch. Any exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go, or Python is a plus, but we'll teach it. ## Compensation & Benefits - Salaried, $75,000–$90,000/year depending on experience. - Paid federal holidays off. - No Nevada state income tax — your take-home goes further here than in most neighboring states. ## Hiring Process We keep it practical and respect your time: a friendly intro call, a small take-home build (AI allowed, ~90 minutes), and a live session where we review some code together and you make a change on the spot. No leetcode gauntlet, no trick questions — just the kind of work you'd actually do here. ## How to Apply Apply through ZipRecruiter. In your application, tell us in a sentence or two about something you built and one thing you'd change about it now — we love that question, and your answer tells us more than a résumé ever could.