Key responsibilities

• Work as part of an engineering team in an agile environment, collaborating with engineers and designers from concept to delivery


• Work with the product owner to translate business requirements into technical requirements and API specifications


• Develop automated testing plans and infrastructure


• Execute on a software architecture and development plan to bring products to life


• Propose novel solutions to design and technical challenges


• Develop all software according to coding standards and processes, which you also help define


• Perform review of other engineers’ code

Ideal experience

What we look for

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including professional-level competency in English


• A proven track record in building and maintaining complex distributed applications


• Strong experience with relational databases, document or key-value stores and domain-driven design


• Experience with cloud infrastructure providers and continuous delivery


• Can write performant, fault tolerant and secure server code


• Can show strong understanding at an architectural level of large systems in which you played a key role


• Have shipped software over multiple releases as a technical lead in a strong team


• Familiarity with modern standards like OAuth, JWT, websockets, and service-oriented architecture


• Strong collaborator, transparent about progress on tasks


• Seeks feedback early and often and works effectively with a team


• Can deliver on engineering estimates

Requirements

• 5+ years professional software development experience


• Minimum 4 years production experience with modern JavaScript (ES6, TypeScript, etc.)


• Advanced knowledge of React and Node.js


• Minimum 3 years experience building and maintaining back end web services in a production context, in a cloud-based environment (e.g. Heroku, AWS) 


• Minimum 2 years experience working with PostgreSQL or another relational database in production


• Minimum 2 years experience designing, building and maintaining APIs in a production environment


• Prior experience with GraphQL

Nice to have

• Proficiency with a back-end JS framework (e.g. Express, Koa, Hapi) and ORM (e.g. Sequelize, TypeORM)


• Experience in building web applications with Apollo Client and Apollo Server


• Experience with Gatsby and single page web applications


• Experience in working with UI component libraries and toolkits such as Material UI, Theme UI, Styled System, Rebass, etc.


• Experience in testing JS applications with Jest, Cypress, and/or CucumberJS


• Experience in building and shipping React Native applications


• Native iOS or Android development experience


• Prior experience in startups as a software engineer


• Evidence of open source contributions