Senior Back-End Developer

A US-based company that enables businesses to create visual brand experiences is looking for a Senior Back-End Developer. The selected candidate will be working with the existing team to support their technical expansion needs to support their growing customer base. The platform enables businesses to build the reputation it deserves by integrating capability with ease of use thereby allowing everyone to do their best work. This is a nice opportunity for developers who enjoy working on challenging and intriguing projects.

Job Responsibilities:

•  Write simple code and ship new products and features to customers or improve existing ones
• Engage in knowledge sharing with the rest of the team and build shared tooling for other engineers
• Directly help customers when the need arises
• Research, guide, and execute system architecture changes, including but by no means limited to, server-side React rendering, and back-end optimization
• Development and upkeep of a dashboard and editor-based application
• Develop server-side logic as part of the back-end effort.
• Using tools like Chrome dev tools, measure, detect, and eliminate performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate directly with our product, design, and UX teams to develop great and intuitive experiences that make connecting multiple apps simple.
• Manage and oversee our development team and engineering process in collaboration with other senior members.
• Assist with the implementation of tools, processes, and documentation to increase the quality of our code.
• Analysis of requirements, structure design, program implementation, and system integration/testing are all tasks that must be completed
• Weekly releases to a big user base while maintaining a high level of autonomy in terms of code and feature ownership
• Share what you know and learn either one-on-one or with lightning talks to the group
• Act as a subject matter expert for given applications, systems, and technologies, and execute expert programming, configuring, and/or analysis with minimum supervision
• Manage the efficient allocation of team resources to ongoing projects, enhancements, and/or initiatives
• Participate in the development and design process
• Provide technical direction to team members and lead investigation and resolution efforts for critical/high impact problems, defects, and incidents

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a back-end developer
• 5+ years of real-life back-end experience working with high load systems
• 4+ years of hands-on experience working on large complex applications
• Solid understanding of Kotlin, Golang, MySQL, and MongoDB
• Prolific experience with JavaScript frameworks like React or Vue.js
• Familiarity with AWS DevOps using EWC, RDS, S3, and other cloud solutions
• Working knowledge of CSS/HTML and SSH
• Nice to have some understanding of Java 
• Prior experience with LAMP stack and ​API integrations
• At least intermediate of security best practices at the server level