Application Framework and API Specialist

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Good understanding of computer science fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, etc. acquired from education and/or experience. 

• Excellent programmer 

• Proficient at complex programming & knowledge of standard data structure and algorithms. 

• Make recommendations for each when solving technical problems. 

• Completes assignments in a timely manner and within quality tolerance. 

• Write modular, maintainable code with some guidance. 

• Make the right trade-offs to efficiently solve problems. 

• Recognize impact software changes will have on systems. 

• Make component changes. 

• Understand and comply with provided requirements, translate them into code. 

• Understands the principles of hardware to make design decisions.  

• Link the work to the external market. 

• Build subject matter expertise within the current product domain. 

• Delivers well structured, tested, and documented code within agreed-upon timelines. 

• Provide reasonably accurate estimates of work. 

• Participates in all required meetings and agile ceremonies. 

• Keen to provide test coverage to protect against future changes. 

Required Qualifications:  

• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience. 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent. 

• Able to present a track record of software development in the real world. 

• Mastery of one or more programming languages. 

• Excellent code designing skills. 

• Ability to design and build application frameworks, APIs, and utilities for a complex database application 

• Understanding of metadata, particularly in JSON format 

• Ability to design and implement TypeScript interfaces between application code and framework and infrastructural facilities.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience documenting APIs and frameworks using JSDoc or, ideally, TSDoc 

• Understanding of back-end database applications, ideally involving Node.js (or Deno or similar) and non-relational databases 

• Proficient in TypeScript and familiar with its ecosystem, without relying heavily on pre-built NPM packages for core functionality

• Understanding of JSON Schema 

• Experience building HTTP server and Electron apps 

• Experience using profilers and other metrics to improve application performance 

• Familiarity with modern development environments and standards. 

Education: 

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information technology or related field or equivalent practical experience