Senior Backend Engineer

Description

What you'll be doing

Senior developers oversee the design and implementation of all features inside a squad. They report to the engineering manager of the tribe. They lead all technical aspect of the implementation of squad’s feature ; design, estimation (time & complexity), implementation, maintenance. They are responsible for the quality (tests, security & documentation) of the services of the squad.

What you'll be doing

Responsibilities : On top of intermediate developer’s responsibilities, senior software developers,

Are accountable for all tech tasks of the squads:

Solution design; they can count on the support of staff developers and architect to review their solution design.

Jira epics; ensure that all tickets are created under an epic, tickets are understandable, the scope is clear, the tickets are understood by other developers of the squad.

implementation; accountable for the quality of the implementation. Set up good practices, ensure that good practices are followed ; testing, documentation, security, deployment.

deployment; ensure smooth deployments of all services in production

monitoring; make sure that all services and features owned by the squad are running correctly in production

maintenance; ensure that we meet the SLA for bug tickets, monitor the services in production

Communicate with product team to:

challenge & refine product requirements

manage project timelines

Onboard newcomers & ensure growth of junior and intermediate developers

Participate in recruitement

Requirements : On top of the requirements for intermediate developers, senior developers require:

Advanced (and up to date) knowledge and skills of the programming language used by the squad.

Significant work experience in software development

Advanced knowledge of software programming ; design patterns, good practices

Good interpersonal and communication skills

Play a critical role in day-to-day coding, design, code reviews and troubleshooting production issues

Design, develop and deliver high quality code and automated tests to production within a short development cycle in the Continuous Integration and delivery environment.

Collaborate with engineering, product and cross-functional teams to devise optimal engineering solutions.

What you should have

MS/BS or equivalent and +5 years work experience in Computer Science

Minimum of +3 years writing NodeJS or other backend languages

Solid knowledge in computer science fundamentals: algorithm, data structure, object-oriented programming

Proficient with SQL/No SQL databases

Experiences deploying Rest or GraphQL services in production

Passion for developing high-quality and robust code that scales and performs well

Highly motivated, goal-driven, can-do approach

Innovative, entrepreneurial, team player, ability to multi-task.

Bonus Points

Experience with cloud computing services like AWS and containerized technology such as Docker

Experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ (or any other message broker) and with Elasticsearch

Experience with any open-source ELT/ETL tool (like Airbyte)