Job Description

Staff Engineer, Backend

Required skills and experience:

• 8 to 12 years relevant industry experience, including product development, test and automation. 
• Provide thorough and thoughtful technical guidance to team members and leadership
• Establish groundwork for new infrastructure and components through discussion and writing specifications
• Principled decision maker, but not dogmatic
• Expert in scalable cloud native multi-tenant architectures
• Fluency in TypeScript using strong types, type inference, object oriented and functional programming paradigms, concurrency and generics.
• Expert in web programming and HTTP based APIs (REST and GraphQL)
• Expert in SQL and NoSQL databases with focus on scale (BigQuery and Mongodb)
• Expert in Node/Express web stack
• Experience with cloud management of network devices
• Expert in Jest for unit testing
• Experience in modern front end technologies, preferably Angular
• Experience with kubernetes
• Expert in version control using git
• Some Linux command line and python
• Seamless collaboration in a remote team setting using Agile practices
• Passion for automation
• Passion for personal productivity improvement
• Passion for quality and customer satisfaction
• Passion for development driven testing