Senior Backend Developer

Purpose of the role:

Creative, analytical, driven and energetic in pursuit of designing and building scalable applications with focus on functionality, security and reliability of the tech stack.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• You'll be architecting and implementing backends and their interactions with various data stores and other APIs to enable cutting-edge SV startups to do what they do best.
• You'll be deploying your software using industry standard tooling like Kubernetes clusters, Lambda functions.
• You'll be expected to care deeply about security in everything you do and to constantly raise the baseline of how we defend our user's data against external threats and themselves.
• Your implementation will not end with your code, but with a container running in an environment.
• You'll be implementing robust automated test suites to ensure high quality and low failure rate of
• delivered code.
• You'll be working DevOps style to make sure Defence-in-Depth principles are followed and containers are as secure as humanly possible.
• You will have huge creative freedom and ability to influence the project, so you will take ownership and responsibility for what you do.
• Build relationships with developers in Poland,San Francisco, Cape Town and Brazil.
• Design and develop new back-end services
• Focus on coding and debugging
• Build clean and structured code and libraries
• Research new tech that will benefit the team, project or client
• Integrate user facing elements developed
• Communicate effectively with the team locally and internationally
• Provide insight and contribute to software design and architecture

Skills:

Requirements and Experience:

• Independent efficient problem solving, but also being an excellent team player
• Bachelor Degree with a quantitative/technical major. Brownie points for ComSci grads
• Good command of English, written and spoken
• 10 years development experience. Our core back-end stack is Node.js. So at least 2 years experience using Node.js preferably with Nest.js and Typscript
• High attention to detail
• Expertise in at least one backend technology e.g. Java/.NET
• Strong ability to clearly communicate concepts and ideas to team members as well as clients.
• Good practical knowledge of at least one database system, e.g. PostgreSQL/MongoDB,
• Experience in creating well-designed APIs,
• Experience in utilising good security practices,
• Readiness to learn and expand your skill set as required by ongoing projects
• Experience in the following will be beneficial:
• Hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript,
• Proficiency in PostgreSQL or MongoDB,
• Familiarity with Docker/Kubernet...
  
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