Senior Back End Engineer - B2C (Node.js)

Your impact

You will work with talented people from all around the world and use Agile development principles. We love to help each other and our power comes from the team game. We are a hardcore Agile team, always iterating and striving for a better, faster and scalable product. Here you will be developing features and services that will directly impact our experience of many famous brands. Along with code, we have hands-on experience with infrastructure.

Your responsibilities

• Understanding business requirements and design/architecture solutions accordingly
• Writing clean, maintainable, optimised and scalable code
• Writing comprehensive unit/integration tests and actively participating in peer reviews/testing
• Taking ownership of the existing/new modules/projects, ensuring stability
• Setting up monitoring and implementing improvements proactively
• Being the owner of your service’s availability
• Providing clear documentation to both business and tech teams
• Promoting engineering excellence and best practices within the team

What you'll bring to the team:

• 5+ years' experience as a Back End Engineer, ideally within an international start-up company
• Experience with B2C platforms and systems is a must-have
• Fluent in Node.js and experience in Symfony - PHP is a plus
• Proficiency in crafting applications capable of seamless scalability, architecting robust frameworks
• You're a pro with building applications in Kubernetes 
• Expertise in designing and maintaining micro-services as well as GraphQL and Rest APIs
• Understanding of message broker and queue systems, from Redis to Kafka
• Extensive experience across various data storage platforms, from DynamoDB to MySQL
• Advocate for the principles of Domain Driven Design, crafting systems with clarity and purpose
• Well-versed in the art of testing, from unit tests to integration tests, ensuring the reliability and functionality of systems.
• Fluency in English - other languages are a plus!

What we offer you for being O-mazing:

• A competitive, market-rate salary (incl. holiday allowance) and a generous SAR package
• 25 days paid holiday per year - plus a day off on your birthday and 8 weeks Workation option!
• An open, spacious, plant-filled office on the waterside in the Houthavens
• Delicious bi-weekly office lunches - prepared by our lovely Hub & Culture Manager, Denise
• Mental and physical health support via a OneFit gym subscription discount and free, unlimited access to OpenUp
• Mac laptop and more handy tech - including setting up your home office via Workwize 
• And, of course, an incredible 35% Otrium employee discount!