Junior Back End Developer (active pooling)

LOOKING FOR FILIPINO CITIZENS CURRENTLY RESIDING IN THE PHILIPPINES ONLY!

Position: Junior Back End Developer

Work Hours: EST Hours (40 hours/week, M-F)

Type of Contract: Independent Contractor

Responsibilities

• Research, design and develop systems of upstream services leveraging latest back-end technologies
• Evaluate the application of new tools & technologies as they continually evolve
• Maintain and extend existing services to support our downstream applications
• Maintain and scale our existing cloud infrastructure
• Help to promote best practices within the team

Requirements

• 1-3+ years of experience building highly optimized back-end solutions in Golang, Protobuf, gRPC, and GraphQL
• 2+ years of experience in managing resources in Google Cloud Platform using Terraform IAC (or similar). Experience in managing a kubernetes cluster is a must
• Strong knowledge of common algorithms and data structures
• Strong experience in building reliable, performant, maintainable, and testable code—with proper abstraction
• A collaborative spirit, and the ability to work effectively within a team
• Proficient in english with good writing and communication skills
• Willingness to work in North-America timezone

Background & Characteristics

• Solution oriented with a positive mindset
• Experience working with large codebases across teams with multiple contributors
• A high bar for the quality of code and quality of user experience
• An ability to understand requirements and help surface high-impact ways of solving problems
• Experience building CRM and marketing products like SMS, website, email and loyalty programs is considered a plus
• Experience within the Shopify, Lightspeed and Square apps ecosystem is considered a plus