Job description

Duties and responsibilities

• Responsible for maintaining and develop all parts of a complex service-oriented system
• Work with a large arsenal of open source and cutting-edge technologies such as Node.js, Angular.js, MySQL, Docker, RabbitMQ and Redis.
• Plan and implement model data structures for scalability
• Write secure code
• Participate in all phases of the development life cycle
• Work on the maintenance and improvement of existing data structures
• Research, evaluate and analyse technical and design requirements
• Develop additional server level functionality and tools using a .NET language (C# preferred).
• Troubleshoot and fix bugs/flaws to ensure servers are running optimally.
• Incorporate standards-based development processes for website and web/mobile applications.
• Assist with website strategy and planning.
• Subject matter expert, providing: guidelines, best practices and training to other individuals
• Formulate concepts and ideas for additional products, tools and services

Back-End Web Developer requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Back End Web development
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Really good understanding of the Linux ecosystem and experience with server management
• Experience with automation tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Experience with Docker and how to use it in the context of Node.js and micro-services
• Experience with high availability solutions (load balancing, HAProxy…)
• Familiar with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with service discovery tools like Consul, Etc or regular DNS (SRV records)
• Knowledge of either Coffee Script or Live Script
• Testing experience with Mocha, Karma, etc