Backend Developer

Backend Developer - US ONLY - 100% Remote

Compensation: $112,000 to $140,000 Annually

Our client is looking for a backend focused, mission driven Senior Developer to join their Research and Development team.

Position Responsibilities

• Leads cross-functional development to bring prototypes to life, providing constructive feedback to optimize implementation and usability
• Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices while communicating tradeoffs
• Collaborate with product, services, sales, etc. to determine priorities and risks associated with projects
• Ensure all relevant processes, procedures and product documentation is up to date
• Follow continuous integration/continuous development processes, peer review, coding style, and development conventions using version control systems (bitbucket/git)
• Actively participate in team standups, the LeSS agile process, peer code reviews, and occasional pair programming
• Collaborate with other developers on planning and working use cases, features, and tasks

Required Experience, Skills and Knowledge

• 3+ years of deep JavaScript experience with experience across the development stack
• Experience interacting with Restful APIs, GraphQL APIs and AWS services
• Demonstrated understanding of data storage, caching, and modeling practices
• Demonstrated understanding of design paradigms, software architecture, and design patterns
• Willing to solve engineering challenges new to them and the team
• Ability to travel occasionally
• Ability and interest to work remotely from a home office when not at a corporate office
• Ability to pass a pre-employment background and drug screen in accordance with applicable laws

Preferred Experience, Skills and Knowledge

• Experience with TypeScript
• Experience with AWS CDK
• Experience with AWS Fargate, EKS, or similar
• Experience with PaaS/SaaS patterns utilizing a serverless approach
• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment driven by external demands
• Community-oriented/involvement in thought leadership demonstrates trade expertise
• Familiar with LeSS Methodology, or system decomposition and work task organization, as used in Agile methodology

Requirements

• 3+ years of deep JavaScript experience with experience across the development stack
• Experience interacting with Restful APIs, GraphQL APIs and AWS services
• Demonstrated understanding of data storage, caching, and modeling practices
• Demonstrated understanding of design paradigms, software architecture, and design patterns
• Willing to solve engineering challenges new to them and the team
• Ability to travel occasionally
• Ability and interest to work remotely from a home office when not at a corporate office
• Ability to pass a pre-employment background and drug screen in accordance with applicable laws