Typescript Backend Architect

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.

Onsite 4 days/week: Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Duration: 12+ month contract, extensions likely
Rate: $75-$85/hour

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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)


Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.