Prioritized Must Have Skills for the Senior Backend Engineer:
#1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or another related field
#2. 5+ years of experience with JavaScript/Node
#3. 5+ years of experience with a least one static language (e.g. Java, C/C++) and at least one dynamic language (e.g. Ruby, Python)
#4. 5+ years designing and implementing RESTful APIs using microservice architecture
#5. 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying solutions utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Route 53, Lambda, IAM, ECS and API Gateway
#6. Mastery of multiple modern platforms such as Git, AWS, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Travis, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, IAC, etc.
#7. Proficient knowledge on SQL and NoSQL databases
#8. Proficiency in a Unix/Linux environment and experience working with CLI
#9. Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, and Chai
Responsibilities of the Senior Backend Engineer:
- Collaborate with UX, Culinary, Video, Firmware, Software, and Hardware Engineering Teams to review requirements, design, configure and deploy new services
- Contribute to architecture, instrumentation and performance design decisions and carrying out POCs whenever required
- Produce well designed, high quality and reusable code by applying design patterns and best practices in software development for agility, reliability, and scalability of the services
- Proactively monitor performance and system health with observability and AWS tooling.
- Automate our infrastructure deployment and configuration management pipelines and create tooling so we can all work faster.
- Refactor code base from time to time to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability of the services
- Design and expand on SQL and NoSQL database schema
- Participate in code reviews
- Carry out testing and debugging
- Participate in daily standups and weekly sync-up meetings with stakeholders
- Participate in sprint planning sessions by reviewing goals and grooming stories.
- Scale architecture with modern technologies leveraging the AWS platform
- Effectively connecting to a culture of delivering high quality content around the brand vision
Requirements of the Senior Backend Engineer:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or another related field
- 5+ years of experience with JavaScript/Node
- 5+ years of experience with a least one static language (e.g. Java, C/C++) and at least one dynamic language (e.g. Ruby, Python)
- 5+ years designing and implementing RESTful APIs using microservice architecture
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying solutions utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Route 53, Lambda, IAM, ECS and API Gateway
- Mastery of multiple modern platforms such as Git, AWS, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Travis, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, IAC, etc.
- Proficient knowledge on SQL and NoSQL databases
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals and design patterns
- Proficiency in a Unix/Linux environment and experience working with CLI
- Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, and Chai
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $160,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Experience:
- AWS: 6 years (Required)
- ASP.NET: 2 years (Required)
- APIs: 5 years (Required)
Work Location: On the road