Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack (React/Node.js)

Job Description

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer, who is very used to working as a key member of a lean, Agile product development team. You will play an essential role in designing, building, enhancing and maintaining our bespoke client-facing software products using modern technologies, which are key to the success of our business.

Our software is deployed in Azure, so familiarity with Azure services is a definite advantage. Our backend is deployed on dockerized applications running on Kubernetes. We use different data storage mechanisms, depending on the one that fits better the requirements, so you’ll find data in Postgres, Elasticsearch, Snowflake or Databricks.

We have frontend applications which are written on React and they communicate through ts-rest.

Requirements Description

• Bachelor's or higher degree in computer science, software development or a related field
• Substantial relevant development experience and demonstrable capability of working in a role having senior engineer responsibilities (7+)
• Experience with Typescript, Node.js, React, Azure or similar cloud services
• Ability to write clean, readable, well-formed, self-explanatory code
• Experience in designing and building complex major components, services or applications, from scratch
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, in English, both written and spoken
• Hands on experience with core components of the application development environment configuration: GitLab pipelines, Docker

Your Responsibilities

• Independently developing or enhancement of new and existing system components, services and applications.
• Providing peer support to other developers, through code reviews, peer programming, collaborative technical design, mentoring less experienced folks or assisting in on-boarding new developers.
• Write and maintain automated tests to ensure the quality of the codebase.
• Participating in regular formal and informal team sessions, like sprint planning, refinement sessions, kick-offs, daily stand-ups and retros.
• Helping to continuously improve our CI/CD pipeline, as well as the tools and methods that the team uses, to provide as much value as possible, with high quality, for as little effort as possible.
• Proactively sharing knowledge and producing "just good enough" documentation.

Required Skills / Experience

Must-have

• React (JavaScript, front-end)
• NodeJS (JavaScript, back-end)
• TypeScript

Working with

• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery environments
• Automated Build Pipelines

Desired

• Python
• Docker
• Elasticsearch
• PostgreSQL

Nice to have

• Terraform, Python, ETL, Elasticsearch
• SCALA knowhow or would like to learn SCALA and Apache Spark

Soft Skills

• Positive, can-do approach to work, delivering on commitments
• Have good communication skills
• Solution Oriented
• Committed
• Structured
• Creative

Foreign language

• English fluent, both written and spoken