Contract position
Minimum Requirements:
- B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 4+ years in a senior role designing and developing large-scale web applications
- Hands-on public cloud experience - AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Heroku
- Strong understanding of containers Docker, Kubernetes
- Required experience in REST API development
- Polyglot developer with current hands-on development experience in a major framework
- .Net Core, Java/Springboot, Python, JS/NodeJS, Nest.JS, Nuxt.JS
- Hands-on experience with low-latency messaging/queueing technologies - Kafka, rabbit MQ
- Demonstrable familiarity with CI/CD process, testing frameworks and practices with tools like git, Jenkins/Bitbucket pipelines, Spinnaker
- Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools such as Dynatrace & DataDog
- Strong knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
- Expert understanding of architecture and design across all systems
- Experience working within an agile development environment
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic, remote-first environment with a globally distributed team
- Learn about new trends and drive team discussions to improve the product.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Comfortable leading the frontend development team in big projects
- This is a hands-on role and code contribution daily is required
Nice-to-have Skills:
- Experience using Node.js tools
- Experience with backend tech stacks including Node, Python and Go
- Experience with testing (Cypress, Jest)
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Bitbucket Pipelines and Spinnaker
- Experience with SonarCloud (Code scanning, vulnerabilities, code coverage, code quality etc)
- Experience with Cloudflare (Caching, DNS, WAF, CSP)
- Experience using Monorepos using Nx (we have over 20+ FE apps in the same repo)
- Experience with Datadog
- Experience with AWS services
- Experience using Terrafrom
Responsibilities:
- We are looking for an individual to lead the design and architecture of large- scale backend applications using the best practices to ensure high levels of performance, maintainability and availability.
- Be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in design, planning, development, and deployment and drive improvements in the company's software delivery life cycle to enable high quality continuous delivery process.
- The ideal candidate will bring a mindset of creativity, innovation, and balance bleeding edge technology development with a relentless pursuit of timely product engineering delivery.
- The role requires ownership, logical thinking, and estimation of your own work, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimizations.
- The candidate will partner with key stakeholders across the business including the Backend Software Engineers,
- Product Management, Infrastructure/DevOps and Security to advance the product roadmap. They will need to Seek constant feedback from different users and data to help the team to prioritize and iterate on solutions.
- Be involved in mentoring less experienced software engineers in the team
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