Lead Back End Engineer

Job Description

Why iCrossing

For over 20 years, iCrossing has been partnering with the world's largest B2B and B2C brands to provide connected marketing & technology solutions that transform brand experiences and marketing strategies into superior business outcomes. Our human centric approach evolves customer experience, employee experience, and user experience across digital and physical channels powered by data and intelligent creative.

We believe our biggest asset is our combination of different backgrounds, cultures, and disciplines that come together to form iCrossing community. What we do starts with our people.

We are part of the Hearst Corporation, the world's leading media, entertainment, and content company, which gives us access to the most valuable data and insights, talent and audiences.

About this job

As a iCrossing Lead Back End Engineer you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of developers working on large-scale enterprise microservices built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The team is responsible for developing and maintaining a Node.js microservices functional infrastructure, all running on Amazon Web Services. You will be leading the implementation of the system design and communications with client and other IT partners involved.

What you'll do

• Be instrumental in developing digital experiences using cutting edge technology by leveraging your Node.js software development experience.
• Develop code in node.js for highly visible marketing and eCommerce Websites.
• Lead an application development project team comprised of onshore and offshore developers using Scrum ceremonies and methodologies.
• Lead ongoing development and maintenance activities, including leading all code reviews. You will guide the team on best practices.
• Manage your team and ensure completion of coding assignments on time. Ensure quality of deliverables and system level documentation.
• Report to and collaborate with a Director of Technical Architecture for solution design.
• Work with Technical Managers to assign work, estimate project specific work, and ensures the timeliness/quality of deliverables and make sure all appropriate parties are informed of tech team status and issues.
• Be the Technical Lead and participate in all Scrum processes, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Constantly make sure your knowledge of technology and tools is current.

Who you are

• Hold a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience building websites, RESTful APIs, or microservices.
• Creativity and experience developing best in-class software applications in Node.js using ECMAScript (ES) modules, NPM and Serverless Framework.
• Write Node.js code that interacts with SQL or NoSQL databases.
• Hold in-depth knowledge of JavaScript.
• Knowledge of Cloud Web Services such as AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB.
• Understand security best practices (e.g. using IAM Roles, Policies, KMS, etc.).
• Knowledge of working with git and shells in a terminal on daily basis.
• Skills at setting your local development environment tooling and deploying code to a remote server environment.

Great if you also have

• Built RESTful services and troubleshooting them to HTTP protocol level.
• Experience with Cloud Web Services such as AWS Cognito, Secret Manager, RDS, EC2, ECS, Fargate, SQS, Cloudwatch, or similar.
• Knowledge of Node.js with Typescript
• Experience developing Lambda functions in Python
• An understanding in Continuous Integration technologies and deployment frameworks (i.e. Node Package Manager, Docker, Jenkins, CodePipeline).

Our Mission & Values

The iCrossing mission is to Transform Experiences. The "we" is implied, but never taken for granted. This mission impacts the way we work, the way we think, the way we treat one another, and the way we evolve into what we want to be. We operate as a community of humans, and we can adapt and evolve because we are guided by values not rules.

Our core values map back to our vision.

Be Kind: lead with compassion. What you truly know about someone's life is very little.

Know The Line: lead with candor. Is what you say true, good, and useful?

We Before Me: lead for others. The sum is always going to be greater than the parts

We evolve clients for a human-centric future - creating a better world for everyone.

Benefits

iCrossing offers a range of employee benefits including generous PTO, 11 paid holidays, 401k + company match, full medical/dental/vision coverage, FSA & HSA options, family leave, commuter benefits, and more.

About our technology team

We're engineers and solutions integrators experienced at all levels of the application life cycle. No matter our individual role, every team member has two essential responsibilities: build technologies that power digital transformations and make the impossible, possible.

With a clear focus on creating engaging, rich, and dynamic customer experiences, together we create world-class data-driven solutions for Omni-channel digital marketing initiatives. Keeping up with the proliferation of devices, operating systems and APIs takes some serious technical talent - and our team has lots of it!

We are better together. Each one of us has a role in making iCrossing an energizing and inspiring place to work.