Senior Software Engineer (Backend Node.js)
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DeimosTechnology Services
South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, SenegalFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least 5 years
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerNode.jsPostgreSQLGCPJavascriptMySQLTypeScriptRedisRESTful APIs
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience building backend services for production systems.
- Extensive, idiomatic Node.js experience, including building large, highly available APIs and services.
- Strong understanding of the RESTful API paradigm.
- Strong working knowledge of JavaScript and/or TypeScript and the Node.js ecosystem (Express, NestJS, Fastify or equivalent).
- Solid relational database experience, particularly with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimisation and indexing.
- Thorough understanding and extensive experience with automated testing (unit, integration and end-to-end).
- Working knowledge of caching layers such as Redis, and familiarity with message and queueing systems.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating services on AWS and/or Google Cloud, including familiarity with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Good working knowledge of the use of Git.
- Experience within an agile development environment.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and automated release management for backend services.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain the API infrastructure, services and systems that power high-traffic, consumer-facing applications for our clients.
- Extensively collaborate with Product, Frontend, UX and other engineering stakeholders on requirements, their implementation, process improvements and domain analysis.
- Implement backend services that realise customer value, focussing on quality through testing, automation and code review.
- Critically analyse the systems you work on to identify performance bottlenecks and opportunities for improved scalability, reliability and customer experience.
- Write and ship code that is idiomatic, maintainable and efficient, and debug and resolve production issues across services.
- Recognise impediments to team efficiency (technical debt) and propose and implement improvements to standards, tooling and processes.
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