Senior Full-Stack Developer

@LifeAtALKU as a Senior Full Stack Developer:

ALKU is transforming the staffing industry by being an automation-first, data-driven company where innovation and technology pave the way forward. Our directive is to build high impact internal applications, interfaces, and integrations to automate processes, optimize workflows, and solve a wide variety of business problems. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about building business critical tools to automate away the mundane and inefficient and to enable ALKU to scale and grow. 

As a Senior Full-Stack Developer, you will work closely with a team of Product Owners, Data Analysts, and other Engineers in a fast-paced and agile development environment. You will apply a software-development mindset to solving real business problems together with your team. You will do this by designing, developing, testing, and improving our custom applications and automation. You will be a key contributor in design decisions on our technical architecture, placing an emphasis on scalability and reliability. 

ALKU Engineering is a new addition to ALKU and is critical to achieving our strategic goals. We plan to promptly grow the team and the impact of our internal ecosystem of custom applications. We are looking for engineers who are comfortable working in ‘startup-like’ environment and acting as primary contributors to our development efforts, our team culture, and our operating methodologies. 

Required Skills/Abilities:  

• 6+ years of experience with any combination of JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node, Python
• Experience with API design, message queues, REST
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL or MySQL server
• Experience with unit testing and integration testing
• Experience architecting complex web applications
• Familiarity with microservices patterns

Nice to have experience: 

• Experience working with AWS Lambda, serverless applications
• Experience integrating data from different systems (using APIs, webhooks, connectors, etc.)
• Experience building high performance cloud-based data pipelines

Sample projects you could work on: 

• Build a workflow management app for our Sales teams
• Build a consultant management application
• Build an API interface/integration that enables cross-application functionality