Full Stack Developer (React + Javascript + NodeJS)
Job Summary
Youll have visibility into and influence over all parts of the technology stack and enjoy a high degree of autonomy in your work.
Youll have a clear view of the product roadmap the businesss long-term vision and the opportunity to contribute to how we can achieve both of them.
Youll work with an extremely committed team of colleagues who are constantly challenging each other.
Youll contribute to planning designing developing deploying monitoring and maintaining significant portions of the software that support our users including the system infrastructure.
Youll have the chance to provide and receive feedback from your peers get coaching from more experienced engineers and provide coaching to other developers within the team and the broader organization.
Youll use modern tooling throughout whether thats something currently part of our stack or something new that you assess needs to be added to reliably deliver the desired user experience.
Web client: React Styled Components
Web server: NodeJS JavaScript TypeScript Express
DB: PostgreSQL
Infrastructure: AWS (services include RabbitMQ Redis S3 etc.)
CI/CD: Github Actions
Testing frameworks: Jest React Testing Library Cypress
You have 5 years of experience using JavaScript to build real-world applications preferably public-facing.
You have experience building monitoring and maintaining highly available scalable and resilient software.
Youre curious and naturally invest energy into learning new technologies techniques and interpersonal skills that help improve your productivity and happiness and those around you.
Youll take responsibility for finding opportunities to improve our technology in any feature you work on iteratively and youll make paying down technical debt a habit.
Youre a creative problem solver who can develop a plan take ownership of tasks and are outcome focused.
Youll work to empathize with the softwares users and understand their challenges whether they are fellow developers immediate team members or entrepreneurs who rely on us to support their businesses.
Youre passionate about mentoring and coaching other engineers and have a practiced ability to spot when help is needed and tactfully provide guidance to get things unstuck.
You behave proactively and drive the solution when facing unforeseen challenges and complexity in your projects to meet the overall goals.
You have significant production JavaScript experience and have formed explicit opinions about how different development patterns and practices can negatively and positively impact your ability to be productive in a codebase and by extension the reliability of a business software platform.
You understand web/application security and the importance of data privacy.
You have excellent spoken and written communication time management and project management abilities.
You are comfortable asking questions and speaking up to help us continuously improve our practices and processes.
5 years of solid hands-on programming experience with a sizable portion in JavaScript TypeScript GraphQL React CSS and Postgres.
Experience leading development teams mentoring junior developers and working with non-technical stakeholders.
Experience writing automated tests from unit tests to end-to-end tests and have some knowledge of JavaScript-based testing frameworks.
Experience with source control (e.g. Git GitHub) and modern software delivery techniques and tools including pull requests.
Experience with DevOps best practices and some experience in setting up and configuring cloud computing infrastructure.
Experience building production systems and understanding the deployment monitoring and security best practices required to run production software.
Experience in developing for Cloud Agnostic Architecture
Experience working with various development workflows and methodologies with an understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of different ways of working
Post-secondary degree or diploma in a computer or software design related program.
Experience working with AWS