Senior Back-end developer

We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer with an international fintech start-up, XPayBack, on a mission to protect and grow its clients’ life savings.
About the job
This is an excellent fit for talented engineers who thrive in a fast-paced environment. We care deeply about your passion and dedication to the craft of software.

What you’ll be doing

• Drive design and building of innovative and performant features into our next-generation software applications. Apply deep knowledge of computer science & programming principles, combined with empirical professional experience into innovative solutions.
• Develop, integrate & document libraries and frameworks that allow us to effectively scale development on our applications across multiple projects as common services or components, leveraged by multiple products, within scope, cost, time & quality constraints.
• Build and track quality into agile product lifecycle encompassing requirements, design, code, testing, delivery, support.
• Enable and write clear maintainable full-stack solutions that scale, adhere/improve/augment existing standards, working in a professional software engineering environment (source control, shortened release cycles, continuous integration, deployment, etc.).
• Understand and socialize company goals, metrics and align with the team’s technical goals.
• Advise product owners and UX on what’s feasible technically, a partner in user requirements translation to technical specifications. Participate in product planning sessions as a technical SME.
• Support our products, identify, and fix root causes of production incidents, own troubleshooting, and resolution of production issues across teams.
• Own discovery, solutioning, monitoring, incident resolution – imbibe and socialize DevOps mindset.
• Own product quality and work to quickly address production defects.
• Embed a DevOps mentality within the team.
• Serve as a technical lead for your team as needed or special purpose projects per business priority. Identify & own coaching opportunities.
• Stay current with learning current trends in technology and mentor and guide junior engineers and interns.
• Partner with architects, engineers, development managers, product managers, agile coaches across the engineering practice in an agile environment, with scrum implemented at scale globally.
• Driver in continuous improvement processes through metrics and feedback. Welcome, change and complexity. ?Learn quickly and adapt fast. ?Be a change leader!

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s in computer science or related discipline; or equivalent work experience
• 5-10 years of experience with developing enterprise web applications using NodeJS and its frameworks
• 5+ years’ REST services, SOA, micro-services
• 5+ years’ unit testing, mocking frameworks, automation frameworks
• 5+ years experience working in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• DevOps mindset – 3+ years’ experience in a mature CI/CD SDLC environment, implemented exception handling, logging, monitoring, performance measurement, operational metrics knowledge
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming, databases, SQL, web programming, design patterns, SOLID principles
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Understanding of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Experience implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Good analytical and problem-solving aptitude
• Strong communication, partnership, teamwork skills required

Technologies:

• JavaScript/Typescript
• NodeJS with frameworks like Express/Fastify/NestJS
• Unit Testing frameworks like Jest/Mocha
• SQL Databases like MySQL/Postgres and NoSQL Databases like MongoDB
• Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift
• Version Control Systems like Git/SVN
• Package managers like npm/yarn
• Module bundlers like webpack, gulp, etc.
• Experience with cloud technology stacks like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.

Bonus Points:

• Open-source contribution, repositories, personal projects
• Participation in communities of interest, meetups
• Certifications in technology, agile methodologies
• Prior experience in agile implemented at scale across multiple teams globally
• Skills at front-end engineering using Object-Oriented JavaScript, and has knowledge of at least one of the following JavaScript Frameworks (Vue, ReactJS, Angular, etc.), along with HTML5 and CSS3