As a Lead, you take ownership of functionalities learn, and work collaboratively with your colleagues. You constantly design, test, evolve, and evaluate the nuts and bolts of our operation while offering a creative and analytical approach. The high-quality code that stems from your fingertips is robust, readable, and understandable. Your pragmatic test coverage allows you to confidently and responsibly practice continuous refactoring. As a backend specialist, you’re passionate about building scalable, resilient, and
secure systems. You’re at home writing platforms, and you display an intricate understanding of how each line of code fits into a business plan.
What You’ll Be Doing
Design, build and evolve our backend systems to support customer-facing and internal features, while proactively incorporating best practices for security, testability,
Observe logs and investigate root cause analysis.
Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues to deliver a compelling user experience.
Contribute to tools, workflows, and culture to ship code from your laptop/workstation to production frequently and confidently.
Practice Behavior Driven Development to collaborate and Test-Driven Development to ensure high code quality.
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organizing team.
Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.
You Must Have
At least 5 years of professional software development experience.
Well versed with languages such as JavaScript and TypeScript.
5+ years building scalable systems on Node.js.
5+ years building highly performant applications involving mission-critical database transactions against a relational database or non-relational database system.
Proven ability to write clean and SOLID code using Javascript/Typescript applying appropriate object-oriented and functional programming design patterns.
Well-versed with writing DAMP automated tests that are readable and robust.
Excellent communication skills, spoken as well as written, with a demonstrated ability to articulate technical problems and projects to all stakeholders.
Extra credits for
Experience with these technologies:
Postgres (RDS) / Dynamo DB
The AWS ecosystem.
Rest APIs.
Gherkin syntax and Cucumber for behavior specifications
Tools to create and maintain CI/CD pipelines
Serverless infrastructure.
Experience architecting cloud-native systems and managing their production deployments.
Experience with any of these architecture patterns: