Senior Specialist - Architecture

Sr Nodejs Backend Engineer

What does an exceptional Sr Nodejs Backend Engineer do

As a Senior Cloud Engineer you will be a part of a small but growing team of hardworking people responsible for creating and maintaining a suite of cutting edge back of house web applications point of sale APIs and Android client applications in a fast paced result oriented environment An exceptional Senior Cloud Engineer merges wisdom in the field of backend development with a teaching mindset and an understanding of the constraints and needs of the business to elevate the quality of the output of the entire team over time They lead by example prioritize quality and help define the long term architecture for the full suite of web applications

As a Sr Nodejs Backend Engineer you can look forward to

Installing configuring customizing upgrading supporting and troubleshooting all technical issues related to on premise and hosted environments for both desktop and mobile platforms

Working directly with clients to understand business needs define requirements quote projects

Building testing implementing and launching the solutions proposed

Work directly with third party vendors to define technical requirements and customize configure and implement solutions to interface with various external systems

Being hands on with development and resolving of all technical issues within an on premise and hosted client environment

Working with senior management to define and implement technical processes and procedures within the department focusing on client satisfaction and efficiency

Collaborating with Product Development UX Designers and QA to build quality products including resolving complex technical issues related to projects

Communicating within your functional team and across Engineering to keep information flowing

Reviewing peer code designs and providing mentorship

Writing tests and automation to advance maturity in product testing

Being a highly motivated self starter who is passionate about web development and is anxious to learn from other high level web developers

Being a team player ability to collaborate idea sharing in a strong product setting

Developing backend APIs using Nodejs on AWS Lambda and Kubernetes Express based services

Following Agile SDLC participating in planning and Scrum Ban boards

Basic Qualifications

Bachelors degree required

8 years of hands on experience in software development

8 years of Java development

4 years of backend JavaScript experience and understanding in microservice based web services eCommerce Platforms and high volume transactional systems

4 years of relational database design modelling

1 year or exposure to administering consuming AWS services or other cloud platforms

Advanced understanding of functional prototype object oriented based programming principles

Solid grasp of software development patterns and their application in several programming languages An advanced understanding of coding techniques which contribute to the reliability maintainability readability simplicity performance and testability of software

A solid understanding of IT environments including networking server technologies databases security and performance

Experienced in the day-to-day practicalities of Software Development Lifecycles such as Scrum

Extensive experience expanding and maintaining large data sets

Experience with CICD pipeline eg GitHub Actions Circle Ci Jenkins

Experience with building Docker images for deployment

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced understanding of NodeJS and Serverless

REST API design and development

Experience working and building in microservice based paradigm

Knowledge of Ruby on Rails

Understand core JavaScript concepts like scope closures the event loop and asynchronous callbacks

Experience building distributed service oriented microservices style and cloud based application architectures

Containerization experience with application