Senior Backend Engineer

We have partnered with a manufacturing company in Mahwah, NJ to provide them with a Senior Backend Engineer. Please review the below description and let us know if you are interested.

Prioritized Must Have Skills for the Senior Backend Engineer:

#1. Bachelors degree in Computer Science or another related field

#3. 5+ years of experience with a least one static language (e.g. Java, C/C++) and at least one dynamic language (e.g. Ruby, Python)

#4. 5+ years designing and implementing RESTful APIs using microservice architecture

#5. 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying solutions utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Route 53, Lambda, IAM, ECS and API Gateway

#6. Mastery of multiple modern platforms such as Git, AWS, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Travis, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, IAC, etc.

#7. Proficient knowledge on SQL and NoSQL databases

#8. Proficiency in a Unix/Linux environment and experience working with CLI

#9. Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, and Chai

Responsibilities of the Senior Backend Engineer:

• Collaborate with UX, Culinary, Video, Firmware, Software, and Hardware Engineering Teams to review requirements, design, configure and deploy new services
• Contribute to architecture, instrumentation and performance design decisions and carrying out POCs whenever required
• Produce well designed, high quality and reusable code by applying design patterns and best practices in software development for agility, reliability, and scalability of the services
• Proactively monitor performance and system health with observability and AWS tooling.
• Automate our infrastructure deployment and configuration management pipelines and create tooling so we can all work faster.
• Refactor code base from time to time to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability of the services
• Design and expand on SQL and NoSQL database schema
• Participate in code reviews
• Carry out testing and debugging
• Participate in daily standups and weekly sync-up meetings with stakeholders
• Participate in sprint planning sessions by reviewing goals and grooming stories.
• Scale architecture with modern technologies leveraging the AWS platform
• Effectively connecting to a culture of delivering high quality content around the brand vision

Requirements of the Senior Backend Engineer:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or another related field
• 5+ years of experience with a least one static language (e.g. Java, C/C++) and at least one dynamic language (e.g. Ruby, Python)
• 5+ years designing and implementing RESTful APIs using microservice architecture
• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying solutions utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Route 53, Lambda, IAM, ECS and API Gateway
• Mastery of multiple modern platforms such as Git, AWS, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Travis, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, IAC, etc.
• Proficient knowledge on SQL and NoSQL databases
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals and design patterns
• Proficiency in a Unix/Linux environment and experience working with CLI
• Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, and Chai

Desired Skills and Experience

• Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years designing and implementing GraphQL APIs using microservice architecture
• AWS Cloud and/or Terraform certifications and trainings
• Familiarity with data science techniques, hands‑on experience with ML frameworks and algorithms
• Expert familiarity with React

Other Key Requirements for the Senior Backend Engineer:

• Onsite role.
• No sponsorships or visa holders. No Corp-to-Corp.

Benefits of the Senior Backend Engineer:

• Medical Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• 401(k) plan

About the Company:

Cyfle is a global business dedicated to connecting talents worldwide. Our comprehensive RPO services, placement services, and training services help businesses unlock their full potential.