Sr. Node.js Backend Engineer

Role: Sr. Node.js Backend Engineer

Location: Austin, TX-Onsite

Duration: Long term Contract

Job Description: -

• As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be a part of a small but growing team of hardworking people responsible for creating and maintaining a suite of cutting edge back-of-house web applications, point-of-sale APIs, and Android client applications in a fast-paced result-oriented environment.
• An exceptional Senior Cloud Engineer merges wisdom in the field of back-end development with a teaching mindset and an understanding of the constraints and needs of the business to elevate the quality of the output of the entire team over time.
• They lead by example, prioritize quality, and help define the long-term architecture for the full suite of web applications.

Roles and Responsibilities: -

• Installing, configuring, customizing, upgrading, supporting, and troubleshooting all technical issues related to on premise and hosted environments for both desktop and mobile platforms.
• Working directly with clients to understand business needs, define requirements, quote projects
• Building, testing, implementing, and launching the solutions proposed.
• Work directly with third party vendors to define technical requirements and customize, configure, and implement solutions to interface with various external systems.
• Being hands on with development and resolving of all technical issues within an on premise and hosted client environment.
• Working with senior management to define and implement technical processes and procedures within the department focusing on client satisfaction and efficiency.
• Collaborating with Product Development, UX Designers, and QA to build quality products; including resolving complex technical issues related to projects.
• Communicating within your functional team and across Engineering to keep information flowing
• Reviewing peer code, designs, and providing mentorship.
• Writing tests and automation to advance maturity in product testing.
• Being a highly motivated “self-starter” who is passionate about web development and is anxious to learn from other high-level web developers.
• Being a team player, ability to collaborate idea sharing in a strong product setting.
• Developing back-end APIs using Node.js on AWS Lambda and Kubernetes Express based services
• Following Agile SDLC, participating in planning and Scrum ban boards.

Basic Qualifications: -

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in software development.
• 10+ years of Java development.
• 4+ years of backend JavaScript experience and understanding in microservice based web services, e-Commerce Platforms, and high-volume transactional systems.
• 4+ years of relational database design & modelling.
• 1+ year or exposure to administering & consuming AWS services or other cloud platforms.
• Advanced understanding of functional/prototype/object oriented based programming principles
• Solid grasp of software development