Senior Software Engineer
Summary
Builds and maintains scalable platforms, designing APIs and services while working across frontend and backend stacks using modern tools like React, AWS, and Docker.
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
- 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
- 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)