THE ROLE:
We're looking for a Node.js Engineer to continue the work of maintaining, optimising, and adding new features to an exciting social-commerce product. You'll be an active part of a friendly team of engineers, working alongside mobile application engineers and testers and with lots of opportunities to interact with the full range of professional experts involved in the planning, design, and operation of our product.
We particularly need skilled, experienced developers with an eye for code quality, performance, and testability. But we also want you to really care about the final product and to be willing to put all of your skills and effort into creating the best possible experience for all our customers.
OUR IDEAL TEAMMATE HAS/IS:
- Experience with Node.js and TypeScript
- Expertise with PostgreSQL
- Expertise with Linux and Docker containers
- Expertise in AWS services including ECS, S3, SNS, SQS, RDS, Cloudwatch
- Solid experience with Git and Gitflow
- Clear understanding of architectural patterns and best coding practices
- Enjoys solving complex problems, and can follow through the detailed impact of a change accurately
- Love for high-quality and performant code, whilst avoiding premature optimization
- A clear and accurate communicator (both written and spoken)
- Capability to estimate work and commit to deadlines as necessary
- Capability to process and prioritise tasks depending on business needs
- Willingness to constantly and openly communicate within the team and with the wider business
- Previous experience with code reviews and Agile/Scrum development methodologies
BROWNIE POINTS:
- Frontend (React) experience
- DevOps/system administration experience
- A public git of personal Node.js projects that can be shared with us
