Senior Full-Stack Engineer

An emerging startup developing a financial platform and offering a modern approach to payroll for mid-sized organizations is looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer. The selected candidate will play a central role in the company and work with the US-based product and engineering teams to implement and contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle. The company is on a mission to empower people with control over their income and finances, thus providing a voluntary employee benefit that employers can implement. The platform has raised close to $13 mn in funding so far. This is a good opportunity for those who are excited to tackle tough technical challenges and contribute meaningfully to the product development. This position will require a time overlap with IST.

Job Responsibilities:

• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Management of hosting environment, database administration, and scaling an application to support load changes
• Perform data migration, transformation, and scripting
• Create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Suggest alternative technical and business methods and be at the forefront of the engineering efforts to deliver promptly
• Monitor and operate production services, including implementation of adequate resilience and high-availability models
• Manage the back-end API integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners
• Take responsibility for the integration of user-facing elements developed by the front-end developers 
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Design and implement data storage solutions

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 3-8 years of relevant software development experience 
• Proficient knowledge of back-end programming languages such as Golang, Java, and C++
• Familiarity with front-end technologies and platforms (React and React Native)
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors
• Sound knowledge of REST API design and development with experience building them
• Expertise with API security standards and implementation (OAuth)
• Good experience with API frameworks