Node.js Backend Engineer

Looking for a company that inspires passion, courage, and creativity, where you can be part of the team shaping the future of this organization? Want to shape how millions of people buy, sell, connect and share around the world? If you're interested in joining a purpose-driven community that is dedicated to creating an ambitious and inclusive workplace, join this organization you can be proud to be a part of. A leader in e-commerce, the organization aims to be the source that consumers shop first at, the business is part of the African Growth Business unit. About the Role This is an opportunity to create a visible impact in the consumer goods growth business, to use your extensive talents to develop and implement the goals and strategies needed by the IT Development team. In this role, you will deliver an exciting new buying and selling experience that promotes enthusiastic engagement in their large and growing base of customers. Key Responsibilities * Hands-on coding * Work with developers, architecture, product management, quality, and operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet business needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability implementation schedules, and alignment to development principles and product goals * Estimate engineering effort, plan execution cycles and rollout system changes * Strong communication skills with the ability to drive issue resolution and root cause identification with the various teams * Consult Product and UX about technical implications of product ideas * Find a balance between short-term and long term scalability goals, let the cost-benefit ratio be a driver for all your actions * Ensure code quality and maintainability by tackling tech debt, conducting code reviews, initiating refactoring, and improving build and test systems Qualifications * 5+ years of Software Design and Development experience working on performant web services * 5+ years developing REST APIs * 5+ years of Node.js experience * Strong JavaScript language understanding - Promises, ECMAScript 6, extensive functional programming language knowledge * Experience consuming an array of web services: JSON or XML * 5+ years with Agile development methodologies such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) * Experience with SQL * Relevant degree- BSComputer Programming or similar, certificates Interested? Email a detailed CV to (ursula@greenferncareers.co.za)() By clicking *Submit* you confirm that: * We may retain your personal information in our database for future matching. * We may contact you when suitable opportunities arise. * The information you have provided to us is true, correct and up to date.