Backend and Infrastructure Engineer  

Description:

About your responsibilities for the Role

• Deeply engaged in the full development lifecycle including designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, monitoring, and improving backend services and APIs.
• Apply design patterns and design principles to produce maintainable and easy to extend code.
• Write and manage technical documentation.

Requirements:

What you need to have (Minimum Qualifications)

• 5+ years active software development experience.
• Proficient in Git (GitHub/GitLab).
• Excellent coding skill in Javascript and Typescript.
• Solid experience in building backend services and APIs in Node.JS.
• Solid understanding of SQL and the performance costs associated with queries.
• Experienced in different databases. Relational (PostgreSQL/MySQL) or NoSQL (Elasticsearch, MongoDB/DynamoDB).
• Have experience/exposure to cloud services (AWS/GCP).
• Ability to effectively communicate problems and solutions to the different team members.
• Firm grasp in object-oriented, functional, or event-driven programming practices.
• Good cross-team collaboration and communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to different technologies.

Preferred:

What would make you stand out from the crowd (Preferred Qualifications)

• Having infrastructure development experience
• Understanding of CI/CD.
• Experienced in Agile/Scrum development.
• Experienced in using IaC (CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Experienced in using Serverless Technologies (Lambda, Fargate, CloudFunction)
• Experienced with common data storage design patterns (Cache, Persistent Storage, Hot-and-Cold Storage).
• Understanding of common system engineering design principles, ex: load balancing patterns, computer networking, and is aware of basic security.
• Understanding of Dependency Injection (DI).
• Able to do performance benchmarking and monitoring