Key responsibilities
Work as part of an engineering team in an agile environment, collaborating with engineers and designers from concept to delivery
Work with the product owner to translate business requirements into technical requirements and API specifications
Develop automated testing plans and infrastructure
Execute on a software architecture and development plan to bring products to life
Propose novel solutions to design and technical challenges
Develop all software according to coding standards and processes, which you also help define
Perform review of other engineers’ code
Ideal experience
What we look for
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including professional-level competency in English
A proven track record in building and maintaining complex distributed applications
Strong experience with relational databases, document or key-value stores and domain-driven design
Experience with cloud infrastructure providers and continuous delivery
Can write performant, fault tolerant and secure server code
Can show strong understanding at an architectural level of large systems in which you played a key role
Have shipped software over multiple releases as a technical lead in a strong team
Familiarity with modern standards like OAuth, JWT, websockets, and service-oriented architecture
Strong collaborator, transparent about progress on tasks
Seeks feedback early and often and works effectively with a team
Can deliver on engineering estimates
Requirements
5+ years professional software development experience
Minimum 4 years production experience with modern JavaScript (ES6, TypeScript, etc.)
Advanced knowledge of React and Nodejs
Minimum 3 years experience building and maintaining back end web services in a production context, in a cloud-based environment (e.g. Heroku, AWS)
Minimum 2 years experience working with PostgreSQL or another relational database in production
Minimum 2 years experience designing, building and maintaining APIs in a production environment
Prior experience with GraphQL
Nice to have
Proficiency with a back-end JS framework (e.g. Express, Koa, Hapi) and ORM (e.g. Sequelize, TypeORM)
Experience in building web applications with Apollo Client and Apollo Server
Experience with Gatsby and single page web applications
Experience in working with UIcomponent libraries and toolkits such as Material UI, Theme UI, Styled System, Rebass, etc.
Experience in testing JS applications with Jest, Cypress, and/or CucumberJS
Experience in building and shipping React Native applications
Native iOS or Android development experience
Prior experience in startups as a software engineer
Evidence of open source contributions
