Typescript Backend Architect

Onsite 4 days/week: Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Duration: 12+ month contract, extensions likely

Required Skills & Experience
• Strong experience with Node.js and Typescript
• Understanding of DynamoDB or other key-value stores and NoSQL databases
• Experience using AWS managed services
• Experience with caching architectures, particularly Redis
• Experience with messaging, especially Kafka MSK
• Strong experience with containerization and container orchestration, (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, Argo, etc).
• Experience with monitoring technologies (Splunk, Instana, Datadog, Prometheus, etc).
• Knowledge of API documentation, especially Swagger (OpenAPI)
• Experience using CI/CD automation (Jenkins, Gitlab)

Job Description

A large telecom company in Greenwood Village, CO is looking for a Sr. Typescript backend engineer to work in a small, agile team. The team creates REST and event-driven microservices that focus on using caching and reporting to improve our customers' experience. The team works at scaling, handing many millions of REST and Kafka events each day. Engineers on this team create new microservices and improve existing microservices. Projects are usually of considerable complexity and require a mastery of development tools. Engineers are expected to design and implement scalable, dependable systems as needed. As this is a small team, engineers must be self-starters, capable of handling responsibility and making decisions. Follows company software development lifecycle to design, code, configure, test, debug, and document system and application programs. Assists in preparing technical design specifications based on functional requirements and analysis documents. Reviews functional requirements, analysis and design documents and provides feedback. Collaborates with other development staff to achieve quality and consistency. Participates in architecture, design and code reviews. Develops and maintains operational and system level documentation.