Software Engineer

Role
Japa, Inc. is seeking a senior full-stack engineer to join our engineering team, which works on the applications and services that power our products. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing mission-critical services and applications with high availability, concurrency, multi-tenancy, and high scalability in mind.
You will also be able to coordinate with cross-functional teams internal and external of our company. As well as other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Business to build features, resolve issues, and perform testing related to customer facing high traffic services and applications in a fast-paced and collaborative team while owning your solution from development to production
• Design, write, test, and document applications while identifying solutions to complex problems
• Define optimal system performance at scale and at different layers while using system profiling tools and stress testing to find and fix weak spots
• Implement continuous integration, regression and deployment, while maintaining the existing system and codebase
• Design and build scalable, high-availability mission-critical systems and APIs
• Ensure feature quality through extensive testing (unit, integration, functional, performance and regression) with a focus towards automation

Requirements

• 5+ years of working experience in application design and development
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience in building micro-services architectures and API-first design
• Design and development experience with applications that require high availability, concurrency, multi-tenancy, scalability
• Strong understanding of concepts related to data structure, algorithm, design patterns/practices
• Proficient in JavaScript/ES6+
• Deep understanding of JavaScript frameworks such as React
• Solid backend experience in NodeJS, MySQL and developing REST or GraphQL APIs
• In-depth knowledge of web fundamentals (HTTP, HTML, REST, JSON)
• Experience with AWS and other cloud services