Senior Developer - Node.js

What will you do:

• Design and implementation of the overall web architecture.
• Design and deployment of our database used in online and offline executions and construction of our REST API.
• Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing and new problem spaces.
• Integrating with third-party APIs and existing frameworks.
• Providing improvements to the product being supported.
• Actively participated in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations, retrospectives, and solution releases.
• Developing and adhering to best practices for developing applications and continuously contributing to team performance improvement and collaboration.
• Break down large tasks into small chunks and lead a team of engineers to execute on them
• Write maintainable and scalable code, and know when to trade code quality for faster delivery
• Programming, updating, and managing server-side code.
• Work with business heads and product managers to understand and define what software systems need to be built (including frontend and backend)
• Automate operations, maintenance and security of the IT infrastructure
• Review and debug code written by fellow engineers and make sure that the technical competence of the team grows over time.
• Mentor team members to promote engineering excellence.
• Collaborate closely with the design team to build elegant and usable user experience.
• Continuously improve the tribe’s services to achieve technical excellence and pay off the technical debt over time.
  

• At least 3 years of experience with: Relevant back-end programming in NodeJS, ReactJS, ExpressJS, JavaScript
• Database design and management, including being up on the latest practices and associated versions.
• Server management and deployment for the relevant environment
• Familiarity with a relevant and globally supported framework—both front-end and back-end.
• Ideally, familiarity with CSS pre-processors, bundlers, and associated languages/syntaxes/libraries
• Thorough understanding of user experience and possibly even product strategy.
• Experience implementing testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficiency with Git
• Experience with agile and/or DevOps processes and tools (e.g., JIRA,) Ability to translate software requirements into working and maintainable solutions within the existing application frameworks.
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases. Excellent skills in DB schema design.