Software Engineer - Backend

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with other engineers and teams to implement new features, improvements and fixes needed to handle our current and future scale
• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Build, optimize and scale our Node.js platform and applications
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implement secure applications and data protection
• Integrate RESTful API’s, internal web services ensuring high performance
• Collaborating across teams and contributing to open source
• Troubleshoot production issues and implement fixes for them
• You will work closely with Product Owners and other Internal teams to define and shape the tasks we work on

What makes you a great fit:

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (i.e. Express, Hapi, Loopback, etc.)
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming
• Experience creating public facing APIs
• Always strive to learn and are interested in improving your knowledge
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Experience integrating 3rd party services
• Shipping well engineered and well-tested code
• Experience running Node.js services at scale
• Building reliable, robust and observable applications
• Experience building applications using Amazon Web Services