Senior Software Engineer (BE/NodeJs)

Your mission

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be helping us to maintain and raise the quality level of all our JavaScript-based solutions. You will be interfacing with internal and external developers and part of a cross-functional team. We have three products making use of the Node.js ecosystem as a backend. Your primary focus is to enhance and advance our backend in conjunction with our frontend developers. You will have the opportunity to have a direct impact on technological and architectural decisions within this realm.

Your area of responsibility

• Build and implement backend solutions to power our existing products for video generation;
• Update and refactor existing backend solutions;
• Build reusable components and help us to maintain our internal back-end libraries;
• Translate architecture diagrams into performant and reusable code;
• Always have performance and code quality in mind when building new components;
• Understand the impact of API and code changes and plan upgrades with compatibility in mind;
• Support the team to further develop the existing architecture for scalability and reliability;
• Support and interface with freelancers in application features and improvements;
• Take part in planning meetings and help to create technical documentation.

Your profile

Must have skills

• Minimum of four years of experience in Backend Development using Node.js and JavaScript;
• Thorough understanding of software design principles and software architecture;
• In-depth knowledge of REST APIs and the microservice design pattern;
• In-depth knowledge of databases (Postgres, SQL, Mongo, )
• Experience with code versioning (git) and code review processes (merge requests);
• Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest;
• Work independently and proactively by resolving bugs and implementing new features;
• Problem-solving spirit - you never give up on difficult problems;
• You're a team player: take advice and criticism positively, can share tasks, and value good communication and documentation;
• Strong organizational and communications skills with an understanding of production values, deadlines and priorities;
• Fluent and full professional proficiency in English.

Nice to have skills

• Experience with Cloud services (preferentially AWS);
• Experience with Stripe API;
• Experience with Auth0 API.

Why us?

• In addition to start-up flair and exciting tasks, we offer:
• Dynamic environment with a flat hierarchy, a high level of transparency, and quick decision-making;
• You profit from a group of professional colleagues with many years of experience in the industry;
• Flexible work times and the opportunity to work when and where you d like;
• Best hardware and software to ensure that work truly is enjoyable;
• The personal annual budget for further education/training measures;
• Regular company events;
• Participation in company success.