BACK END DEVELOPER

JOB SUMMARY:

We are seeking a Senior Developer with strong problem solving abilities, leadership, and application architecture skills.  The development work will primarily focus on web application development (including REST API development using NodeJS and GraphQL).  Aside from hands-on development, this position will work collaboratively with the technical team on technical strategy and design.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Effectively serve as a member of Agile/Scrum software development team

• Translate designs and requirements into high quality code

• Build and organize development workflows to optimize code delivery and efficiency

• Work collaboratively with the technical team on application architecture strategy

• Write technical specification documents

• Participate in code and design reviews 

SKILLS / QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript and commonly used libraries. TypeScript preferable

• Hands-on REST API development using Node.js (GraphQL preferable).

• Experience working with NoSql databases (DynamoDB preferable).

• Knowledge of AWS technologies like API Gateway, Lambda, S3, etc

• Proficient understanding of code versioning systems, such as GIT

• Unit Testing experience, preferably Jest

• Ability to analyze and resolve complex technical business issues and technical problems

• An undergraduate degree (BA/BS) from an accredited university in Computer Science, Information Technology or a computer related field, or equivalent work experience. 

• The candidate should possess minimum 4 years of web application development experience.

• Excellent communication skills

Bonus

• Exposure to Serverless Framework

• Experience ReactJS a bonus

• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies