Back End Developer (Remote)

NOTE: THIS POSITION IS TO JOIN AS W2 ONLY.

Back End Developer

Location: Silver Spring, MD (Remote)

Duration: 4 Months

The Role: We are actively seeking a motivated Back-end Developer to enhance our dynamic team. The ideal candidate is a team player who works well with others but is also able to work independently. You excel at creating and improving scalable services in line with innovations. As a Back-End Developer, your role could include building services, REST APIs, and state aware workflows largely in cloud environments. We love collaborating with teammates on new app designs, partnering with front-end developers and video engineers to combine work into a cohesive product, and improving existing services.

Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role

• Develop and maintain applications using cloud architecture working in Jira and Git
• Ability to build from user stories and be active in technical design
• Build efficient, scalable, secure, and observable applications
• Able to take and give feedback in team meetings and code review
• Build and maintain highly scalable services and workflows
• Be proactive and responsive in addressing technical issues

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years' experience working as a Software Developer
• Capable of self-deployments in a well-defined container pipeline
• Firm understanding of cloud infrastructure Solid experience with one or more of the following: Node, C#, Rust, Python
• Understanding of SQL and document database development
• Experience with workflow engines (SDVI Rally, Airflow, Step Functions, Argo Workflows, Jenkins, etc.)
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

Must Have Skills / Requirements

• 1) Aptitude/Communication skills
• a. Able to work hard independently and with others collaboratively
• 2) Media Experience
• 3) Experience with CICD
• a. Continuous integration and continuous deployment experience.

Nice to Have Skills / Preferred Requirements

• Open to feedback and being managed.
• Background in media

Soft Skills

• 1) Communication
• 2) Develop and maintain applications using cloud architecture working in Jira and Git
• 3) Ability to build from user stories and be active in technical design
• 4) Build efficient, scalable, secure, and observable applications
• 5) Able to take and give feedback in team meetings and code review
• 6) Build and maintain highly scalable services and workflows
• 7) Be proactive and responsive in addressing technical issues

Education / Certifications

• None required although something comparable to role will suffice.