Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js + Typescript)

The Role:

We are looking for a talented Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing Tech Holding family. The ideal candidate will work closely with Product and Business teams to understand the implications of user flows for sign-up, switching, cancellation, and account management. You will collaborate with the Product team to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations.

Responsibilities:

• Work alongside Product and Business teams to understand the business implications and user flows for sign-up, switch, cancellation, and account management.
• Work closely with the Product team to transform requirements into clearly defined technical implementations.
• Develop a future-proof presentation API that powers the commerce experiences.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team.
• Lead technical discussions to share expertise and best practices with the team.
• Understand key dependencies between core commerce systems such as payments, billing, and subscriptions and how they will affect clients.
• Be responsible for the complete software development lifecycle for our systems, encompassing conceptualization, design, implementation, code review, unit test, QA validation, load-test, launch, and measure performance.
• Define technical and operational critical metrics to measure system health

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of related work experience
• Proficient in server-side development
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript
• Strong understanding of Node.js ecosystem.  (Koa or Express framework)
• Strong design patterns and architectural skills
• API design experience (authoring and providing feedback) with stakeholders.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent debugging skills
• Strong problem-solving skills, with an ability to find compromises that move the team forward.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes
• Familiarity with performance monitoring tools like DataDog, OpenTelemetry, AWS CloudWatch
• Experience with  AWS cloud architecture
• Experience in Mobile Development 

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

What we offer:

• Remote Work Opportunities
• Flexible Work Hours
• Unlimited PTO
• Competitive Salaries
• Health + Dental + Vision + Life Insurance
• Long Term disability + 401k Match
• Professional Development Opportunities

Expected Compensation:

Full-time: $140,000 - $160,000/year

This position is a remote role, but must be located in EST or PST time zone.

*Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time