Technology Domain Specialist - Junior

Contract position
Minimum Requirements:

• B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.

• 4+ years in a senior role designing and developing large-scale web applications

• Hands-on public cloud experience - AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Heroku

• Strong understanding of containers Docker, Kubernetes

• Required experience in REST API development

• Polyglot developer with current hands-on development experience in a major framework

• .Net Core, Java/Springboot, Python, JS/NodeJS, Nest.JS, Nuxt.JS

• Hands-on experience with low-latency messaging/queueing technologies - Kafka, rabbit MQ

• Demonstrable familiarity with CI/CD process, testing frameworks and practices with tools like git, Jenkins/Bitbucket pipelines, Spinnaker

• Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools such as Dynatrace & DataDog

• Strong knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines

• Expert understanding of architecture and design across all systems

• Experience working within an agile development environment

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Ability to work in a dynamic, remote-first environment with a globally distributed team

• Learn about new trends and drive team discussions to improve the product.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Comfortable leading the frontend development team in big projects

• This is a hands-on role and code contribution daily is required

Nice-to-have Skills:

• Experience using Node.js tools

• Experience with backend tech stacks including Node, Python and Go

• Experience with testing (Cypress, Jest)

• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Bitbucket Pipelines and Spinnaker

• Experience with SonarCloud (Code scanning, vulnerabilities, code coverage, code quality etc)

• Experience with Cloudflare (Caching, DNS, WAF, CSP)

• Experience using Monorepos using Nx (we have over 20+ FE apps in the same repo)

• Experience with Datadog

• Experience with AWS services

• Experience using Terrafrom

Responsibilities:

• We are looking for an individual to lead the design and architecture of large- scale backend applications using the best practices to ensure high levels of performance, maintainability and availability.

• Be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in design, planning, development, and deployment and drive improvements in the company's software delivery life cycle to enable high quality continuous delivery process.

• The ideal candidate will bring a mindset of creativity, innovation, and balance bleeding edge technology development with a relentless pursuit of timely product engineering delivery.

• The role requires ownership, logical thinking, and estimation of your own work, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimizations.

• The candidate will partner with key stakeholders across the business including the Backend Software Engineers,

• Product Management, Infrastructure/DevOps and Security to advance the product roadmap. They will need to Seek constant feedback from different users and data to help the team to prioritize and iterate on solutions.

• Be involved in mentoring less experienced software engineers in the team


Originally posted on Himalayas