Software Engineer

CORE PROFILE

The position requires the personnel to assist a team that will design, develop, and maintain highly available platforms. He/she is expected to be able to both work independently and coordinate with team members in developing cost effective solutions.

NATURE OF WORK

• Take project requirements and map them to technical design
• Actively participate in architecture design teams as a key contributor to product definition and future implementation planning
• Take part in both frontend and other backend development
• Work closely with service engineering teams to ensure platform is built with scalability & ease of deployment and maintenance
• Build secure and reusable APIs for internal and external use.

DISPLAYED SKILL MASTERY

• Good knowledge of TDD, OOP and software design patterns
• Work in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Strong sense of ownership, innovation and initiative
• Driven, self-starter, high-initiative and has a growth mindset
• Frontend and backend development skills.
• Desire to learn and adapt to unfamiliar technologies

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

Required

• 4+ years of solid experience of using Javascript/Node or Typescript both in frontend and backend applications.
• Functional experience with at least one popular frontend framework (React, Vue, etc)
• Functional experience with at least 1 Relational DB technology (Postgresql, Mysql, etc)
• Functional experience with at least 1 Non-Relational Key-Value storage (Redis, Mongo, etc)
• Experience in developing and consuming RESTful web services
• Strong knowledge and experience in automated unit and integration testing
• Experience with Git
• Knowledge in containerization (Docker)
• Familiarity with CI/CD
• Familiarity in Scrum
• Knowledge of common security vulnerabilities and best practices for securing applications

Plus skills

• Familiarity with event-driven, streaming, and/or data processing architectures (AWS SNS, AWS SQS, Kafka, etc)
• Familiarity with more complicated frontend framework ecosystem (e.g. React+Redux+Flux)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation)
• Experience with Amazon Web Services - S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda, API Gateway (or similar offerings from Google Cloud or Azure, etc)
• Experience in developing CI/CD pipelines