Backend developers

This is a remote position.

Role Description:

The role requires you to think critically and design with first principles. You should be comfortable with multiple moving parts microservices architecture decoupled services and multithreaded programming. Given you are constructing the core foundation on which the whole system will be built you need to pay very close attention to detail and have a forwardthinking outlook while maintaining scrappiness for the present needs. You are very comfortable learning new technologies and systems. You thrive in an iterative but heavily testdriven development environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build the core services infrastructure and system architecture
  

• Experiment prototype measure and make datadriven technology stack decisions
  

• Implement webservices businesslogic APIs for the Penny.co product interface
  

• Building interactive consumer data from multiple systems and RESTfully abstract to the UI through a Node.js backend
  

• Define code architecture decisions to support a highperformance and scalable product with a minimal footprint
  

• Help improve engineering standards tooling and process
  

Requirements

• Have strong handson programming experience as a MEAN Stack Developer
  

• Have experience building in REST APIs Websockets SQL/NoSQL Databases (MongoDB) message queues distributed caches data pipelines
  

• In depth knowledge of NodeJS ExpressJS or NestJS
  

• Experience with GCP deployments and pipelines management is preferred
  

• Enjoy building distributed/scalable backend infrastructure with a microservicesfirst design
  

• Are extremely comfortable crafting elegant multithreaded programs and services
  

• Have a strong grasp of CS fundamentals data structures and algorithms
  

• Hold yourself to a very high bar for production system quality
  

• Love to demonstrate and incrementally build 100% confidence in all the layers/components you develop.
  

• Have a deep sense of appreciation for testdriven methodology
  

• Are unafraid of the unknowns can handle many moving parts
  

• Love driving projects endtoend to deliver business
  

• Deeply care about resource frugality and performance
  

• ALWAYS take a customerfirst and teamfirst approach