Software Engineer - Node.js

Software Engineer – Node.js

Essential responsibilities:

• Design, delivery, and maintenance of large-scale and complex software applications within an entire technology or application area.
• Works with partners to understand and translate complex, real-world problems into feasible technology solutions.
• Develops clear and complete design artifacts as needed to illustrate Digital Engineering technology.
• Acts as a consultant to a specific technology area, providing thought leadership on modern application architecture considering Performance, Accessibility, Usability, Security, Analytics, Automation, and Quality Assurance.
• Understands and communicates tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Contributes a leading perspective on specific technologies within digital applications.
• Collaborates with Architects to establish a technical vision for various projects and experiences.
• Proactively identifies and reviews opportunities and establishes new patterns to ensure a safe, consistent, and seamless user experience.
• Invents, adopts, or evolves technical decisions, processes, and standards to support an efficient SDLC.
• Establishes standards for recruiting, hiring, and mentoring outstanding software engineering talent.
• Partners with Architects and other Engineering teams to ensure the Digital ecosystem of applications and services are durable and scalable.
• Ensures that solutions are aligned with Enterprise Architecture and applications and systems are built for uninterrupted availability, meet performance requirements, future extensibility, multiple system integrations, long-term growth, and low-maintenance support.
• Provides leadership to drive the continued adoption of DevOps and cloud enterprise solutions.
• Drives best practices in Site Reliability Engineering and ensures secure, scalable, performant, and highly-available services.
• Introduces new ways of improving & scaling digital applications.
• Identifies, plans, and implements improvements to deployment/release pipelines.
• Mentors and coaches more junior Engineers.

What would make us excited about you:

• 5+ years' successful professional experience in the design, delivery, and support of complex projects across web platforms & mobile applications.
• 4+ years' deep and direct hands-on experience with the specific technologies used in the teams' systems/solutions.
• Experience working in an Agile delivery environment.
• Ability to develop technical solutions based on requirements from product, technology, and support teams.
• Ability to lead and work with onshore/offshore teams, and comfortable working in a virtual environment.
• Ability to consistently participate in the recruiting and interview processes and regularly mentor members of the team.
• Experience using unit testing frameworks.
• Experience installing, configuring, and using code analysis tools such as PMD, Checkstyle, Findbugs, and Sonar.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful web services.
• Hands-on experience working in an automated, cloud-based environment. Understanding of QA practices (TDD, BDD, Performance, Security, Integration/Compatibility, Regression, and Functional Testing).
• Experience supporting complex systems with significant integration points and external third-party systems through APIs.
• Strong customer relationship, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Outstanding oral, written, presentation and listening communication skills.
• Effective decision-making skills, even under pressure and while lacking all of the desired detail.
• Deep understanding of Object-oriented design principles and other design patterns (e.g. MVC, serverless, etc.).
• Experience with performance optimization techniques.
• Experience deploying to cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Demonstrated mastery of software development best practices, including code standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Working experience of Cloud architectures, services, and DevOps practices within AWS.
• Experience with highly transactional account and payment-related websites.
• Understanding of front-end technologies including experience with React, Typescript, and Node.js.
• Experience with open source user authentication tools and methods.
• Experience with log management and user monitoring tools.