Backend - Software Engineer

Job Title: Backend Engineer (SDE3)

As a Software Engineer, you take ownership of projects, learn, and work collaboratively with your colleagues. You constantly design, test, evolve and evaluate the nuts and bolts of our operation while offering a creative and analytical approach. The high-quality code that stems from your fingertips is robust, readable and understandable. Your pragmatic test coverage allows you to confidently and responsibly practice continuous refactoring.

As a backend specialist, you're passionate about building scalable, resilient and secure systems. You're at home writing platforms, and you display an intricate understanding of how each line of code fits into a business plan.

Roles & Responsibility

• Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers
• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable and reliable backend applications
• Work with a team of engineers to implement new features and improve existing ones
• Have deep knowledge of software architecture principles and best practices
• Participate in the system design process and contribute to the overall architecture of the backend system
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices and coding standards
• Collaborate with frontend developers and UI/UX designers to ensure seamless integration
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging of the backend code
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and proactively suggest improvements to enhance the backend infrastructure
• Manage PODs and set goals for the team
• Conduct performance reviews and provide feedback to team members
  
  

Core Skills

• Overall 3+ years of experience with Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and Azure
• Strong understanding of unit testing principles and practices
• Experience using a unit testing framework such as Jest or JUnit
• Experience writing unit tests for both Node.js and Java code
• Experience using TDD to build software
  
  

Personal Attributes

• Intuitive and solution-oriented mindset
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to mentor and guide team members.
• Passion for continuous learning and professional growth.
  
  

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science through Tire 1 college.

Skills: azure,junit,tdd,microservices,typescript,unit testing,postgresql,java,node.js,jest