Senior Back-End Engineer

A NASDAQ-listed company that is revolutionizing the automotive and transportation industry with their next-gen range of products, is looking for a Senior Back-End Engineer. The selected candidate will be participating in DevOps efforts to release the application to various environments as needed. The company is manufacturing and distributing innovative electrical vehicles that will enable customers to reduce their carbon footprint and build a greener future for the coming generations. The company has managed to successfully raise more than $11.7bn in funding so far. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Create sophisticated, full-stack applications with a high level of mission-criticality for both internal and external software, and then test and publish them
• Create and implement back-end code using NodeJS/Python Lambdas, AWS Services, and DynamoDB NoSQL databases 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including QA testing, technical product management, and UI/UX design teams to define application functionalities
• Utilize automation to overcome challenges and fulfill deadlines
• Make sure that everyone on the team follows sound software architecture principles
• Actively participate in coding and design reviews
• Conduct unit testing to deliver high-quality software
• Work primarily on the back-end infrastructure that supports customer (B2C and B2C) apps while contributing some front-end work

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a back-end engineer
• 5+ years of experience developing custom solutions or applications
• Extensive experience working with Python, AWS Lambda, TypeScript, and AWS
• Demonstrable knowledge of Node.js, DynamoDB, and NoSQL
• Familiarity with GraphQL is desirable
• Prior unit testing and test-driven development experience
• Demonstrable experience working with systematic troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Extensive experience working with cloud services including AWS Services, Lambdas, EC2, S3, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, SNS/SQS, StepFunctions, and EventBridge
• Prolific experience working with JavaScript/ES6, React, or another JS framework
• Excellent awareness of privacy, authentication, authorization, and caching issues
• Solid understanding of agile software development for accessible tools
• Extensive knowledge of developing large-scale distributed systems that can process millions of transactions per second
• Fluent in written and spoken English communication skills