Backend Engineer

SUMMARY:

Work in the comfort of your own home - A cloud-based applications development company is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our agile and cutting-edge engineering team. This individual MUST have extensive experience in deploying and managing modern tech stacks and be comfortable working in a highly versatile agile-based team. This position involves owning projects, championing the adoption and integration of new technologies, and being flexible and adaptable as the product evolves.

POSITION INFO:

Minimum requirements:

• Technologies:
• TypeScript - (Stack is Node.js based, Advanced build systems, project references, generics).
• Ruby - (Prefer experience with Mongoid and Resque).
• Kubernetes (Broad) - (Need experience across the entire Kubernetes stack)
  • Understanding of how all components work and fit together.
  • Ability to architect, provision and manage workloads running on Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Docker - (Best practices for building, running, and maintaining containers).
• Kafka - (partitions, topics, producers, consumers)
  • Understanding of event streaming and its application within a system (notification events vs event sourcing, when to use what).
• MongoDB – (Monitoring & Atlas, Replication, oplog, audits, caching, Transactions, Performance tuning)
• Cloud computing – (AWS & Azure - Working with networking policies, security groups, routing)
  • Working with cloud compute (VMs, Lambda, ECS).
  • IAM security best practices.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Terraform, Pulumi, etc.
• Networking experience (Broad) – (VPC, security groups, isolation, and SSL).
• Experience with distributed systems – (Streaming, back pressure, Distributed data sets, isolation of data, isolation of concerns, Good inter-service communication practices)
• Output-driven: We favour people and output over process
• Iterative based approach to software development: ship and learn quickly
• In-person company events during the year (meetups, lunch, activities)
• Most engineers work on Mac or Linux

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