Junior Back-End/Full Stack Engineer

At Nortal we believe in thinking big – creating solutions that have a meaningful, far-reaching impact, whether through digitizing governments, improved healthcare, convenient telecom services or creating a competitive edge and agility for large businesses, industry, and manufacturing companies. Our projects have touched more than half a billion people’s lives worldwide, and we’re just getting started. Combining that with the unique experience of transforming Estonia into a digital leader, our vision is to build a Seamless Society.   

To achieve this vision, we’re looking for talented and driven Junior Back-End/Full Stack Engineer to join our team. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to work on meaningful, impactful projects, grow your skills, and teach us a thing or two along the way. 

• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain high-quality software solutions using Java on the backend and React on the frontend. 
• Be involved in the software development life cycle, gaining exposure to requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment, with guidance from more experienced team members.
• Work with the team to contribute to building and maintaining applications, learning to apply best practices and architectural patterns.
• Implement and consume REST APIs and work with modern frontend components and backend services.
• Continuously learn and stay up to date with relevant technologies and methodologies, and actively contribute ideas to improve code quality and development processes.

• 1–2 years of hands-on experience in software development
• Practical experience with Java (e.g. Spring or similar frameworks) and (or) React/React Native.
• Basic understanding of REST APIs and how frontend and backend components interact.
• Familiarity with modern databases and data handling concepts.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum principles and experience working in an Agile team environment.
• Eager to learn, open-minded, and motivated to grow as a full stack developer.
• Interest in understanding how your work creates value for end users and the business.
• Ability to write basic unit tests, refactor code with guidance, and work within existing codebases.
• Foundational understanding of common software design principles and development best practices.
• Good communication skills (spoken and written), with fluent English required.

Salary range:
• 2000 – 2900 € per month

Interested in this role? Apply now and start your career at Nortal. 
We like to say that Nortal is a right-sized company – big enough to undertake and impact influential projects yet small enough to care. At Nortal, your voice is heard, and everyone’s input matters. You solve critical problems for interesting customers from different domains. You work with experienced colleagues in a warm environment. You can execute your ideas in a reasonable time frame.

And what you do and learn here are universally relevant and valuable. Last, but not least, Nortal is an agile company with low hierarchy – meaning heavy on common sense, light on rules, and substance is more important than titles!