Sr. Backend Engineer (Nodejs)
Summary
This senior backend engineer role involves designing and implementing scalable, distributed fintech systems using Node.js and AWS serverless technologies. The position requires extensive experience in building fault-tolerant architectures and maintaining high-quality, testable code within a remote-first environment.
About the job Sr. Backend Engineer (Nodejs)
About
Unitalent Consultancy OÜ, in partnership with Flatworld, is helping an a London based Fintechsearch for a Sr. Backend Developer (Nodejs). The position is fully remote within the EU.
Responsibilities
- Be a key member of the product team, and will work with the Founder / CEO and Engineering Lead.
- Design, prototype and implement new features end to end.
- Utilize your vast experience with architecting, developing and supporting distributed & scalable systems running on AWS.
- Demonstrate leadership principles including excellent judgment and high standards on software delivery.
- Be expected to have the ability to dive deep and gather business requirements, drive best
practices in the team and deliver high-quality results. - Help develop guidelines and best coding practices for our growing dev team.
- See the effects of your work make real-world impact.
- Collaborate with product and development teams across multiple projects.
- Manage project scope, backlog and timelines.
- Proactively identify and help fix any problems and roadblocks
Requirements
- Are a highly experienced senior engineer with 10+ years of software development experience Must
- Have experience building and supporting distributed & scalable fault tolerant systems running on AWS - Must
- Have lots of commercial experience working with AWS services like - API gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS etc.
- Have Bachelor's degree in computer science or a relevant field.
- Have core software engineering skills, including the ability to write maintainable,testable and robust code
- Have experience designing and implementing clean APIs following REST or GraphQLconcepts for integration of user-facing elements developed by app developerswith server side logic
- Have experience in taking product requirements and building scalable, reliablesolutions
- Have commercial experience of tracking the health of your deployed services, identify and fix problems proactively.
- Good written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Have experience with AWS Serverless services.
- Have experience with low-latency, high-availability, and performant GraphQL API.
- Have experience designing and building event driven architectures.
- Have experience with system and application monitoring, software distribution, patchingand maintenance of CI/CD pipelines.
Benefits & Work-life balance
- A fully flexible and parent-friendly remote work environment
- Spotify/YouTube music subscription
- Whatever you'll need within reason
- 28 vacation days per year
- Public & Bank holidays off (included in the 28 days)