Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development

Technical skills

• 1-3 years experience in Node.js on Express framework with Typescript
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks
• Experience working with microservice architectures
• Vast experience with performance optimization, especially with high concurrency and high volume/traffic workloads
• Experience with AWS and Docker
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs
• Experience with relational and non-relational DBs, especially query analysis and optimization
• Experience with unit testing
• Ability to think of the customer and the business in order to solve problems and get stuff done
• Strong team player with excellent communication skills in English
• Experience mentoring other engineers and sharing your expertise
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum/Kanban software development methodologies
• Ability to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs

Nice to have

• Caching experience, using tools like Redis
• Familiarity with messaging broker frameworks such as RabbitMQ, Kafka or other
• Familiarity with loadtests (using Jmeter or others)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (like New relic, Instana, or others)
• React, Kubernetes, Jenkins (or similar build/task manager), JIRA, Postman/cURL