Back-End Node Developer

A rapidly-growing tech company helping people build their credit score by providing them with a digital credit card is looking for a Back-End Node Developer. The selected candidate will be a key member of the product team and work closely with the Founder/CEO and Engineering Lead. The company is on a mission to promote financial inclusion by giving those who have been turned down by traditional lenders a way to get credit. They have secured fundings worth more than $257K so far. This is a long-term role requiring 6+ hours overlap with the GMT time zone.

Job Responsibilities:

• Build and manage distributed and scalable systems running on AWS
• Utilize prior hands-on coding experience in a modern object-oriented language
• Evaluate and gather business requirements, advocating for best practices and result delivery within the team 
• Navigate unique challenges and opportunities to provide software that benefits several customers from the onset

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 3+ years of relevant experience as a back-end developer
• Profound programming experience with NodeJS, JavaScript
• Expert software engineering skills and capable of writing maintainable, testable, and robust codes
• Experience designing and implementing clean RESTful APIs 
• Proficiency in building scalable, reliable solutions using product requirements
• Nice to have prior experience with AWS Serverless services such as Lambda, Fargate, API Gateway, DynamoDB
• Previous experience with event-driven architectures is desirable
• Experience with system and application monitoring, software distribution, patching, and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines is nice to have
• Ability to track the health of the company’s services, identify and fix problems proactively
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English