Software Engineer (Back-end)

Key Responsibilities: 

• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
• Liaise with developers, designers, and system administrators to identify new features
• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership.

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to QA teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong experience and proficiency in Javascript
• Strong experience in Node.js and related frameworks
• Good understanding of asynchronous event-based programming paradigm
• Experience in building RESTful API for consumption by Single Page Web Application and 3rd parties.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML 5, CSS3, Angular JS, React
• Understanding of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems and environments
• Experience with database systems such as MySQL, Redis
• Some experience with micro services and server-less (lambda) architectures a big plus
• Some experience with an RPC framework and graphQL would be a big plus
• Experience with unit testing and automated testing platform a big plus
• Experience with AWS is a big plus. Docker. EC2, SQS, Lambda
• Python, CoffeeScript would be a plus
• Knowledge of WebSocket and socket.io library
• Basic Linux command