Senior Software Engineer, Retail Platform

Role.  An overview of the opportunity:

Skupos is seeking a Software Engineer for a growing and thriving development team.  We are a tight knit group with a team first mentality.  We strive to achieve our engineering efforts through our team culture, clean code and hard work!

We are looking for a passionate backend engineer that takes pride in their work relationships and the business outcomes that their work affects. An engineer that wants to improve on their talents and contribute to the growth of a shared technical vision and who gains satisfaction from taking on challenging and novel problems with creative solutions.

Responsibilities.  Your responsibilities will include:

• Work on novel solutions and product capabilities bridging the gap between 3rd party distributed legacy client systems and modern, rapidly evolving, internal cloud infrastructure
• Research and develop proof of concepts across various business concerns and product facets
• Maintain, reinforce, and extend core infrastructure and applications that keep the company operating at scale
• Work in a collaborative and inclusive team environment which values open discussion, exploration, and creativity
• Collaborate and pair with team members across the organization (FE/BE engineering, data engineering, information security, business and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
• Work with Product Team to craft user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand and testable
• Coordinate with team members on project preparations; assist in developing project plans and proposals
• Track project progress, ensure timely completion and create transparency
• Research and recommend new technologies that will enhance team performance, improve project delivery times and decrease development stack overhead
• Help grow other team members through mentorship & hands-on guidance

Experience.  Candidates should have:

• 4-year computer science degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of professional work experience in server side software development, preferably in  Node.js / Typescript
• Test-driven development (e.g. Jest)
• SQL (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• In-memory caching and search indexing (e.g. Redis, Elasticache)
• Worker thread pattern and job queues (Redis backed queueing systems a plus)
• Building REST APIs (frameworks such as Express.js, Koa.js)
• Application build and development tooling (e.g. Webpack, Babel, Gulp, Grunt)
• Understanding of distributed computing and client orchestration a plus (botnet C2, client/server architectures based on socket RPC (e.g. websocket, socketIO, zeroMQ)
• Experience with languages; Typescript, Javascript (Node.js)
• Cloud and distributed services (AWS, Elasticsearch)
• Comfortable working in and administrating Linux environments
• Understanding of application level data processing and performance optimization (chunking/streaming)

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Atlassian JIRA, Confluence
• Experience with network diagrams, UML, data flow diagrams (using Lucidchart or equivalent)
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with Terraform/Terragrunt
• Experience with IPSec or similar secure network protocols
• Experience with remote file transfer protocols (e.g. SMB, FTP)
• Experience with transport protocols (TCP/IP, UDP/IP)
• Experience with secure software development for maintaining compliance such as PCI/FIPS/HIPPA
• Understanding of logical and physical networking concepts
  • NAT/SNAT
  • SD-WAN
  • Secure network zoning and segregation (POLP, Zero Trust)
  • Network tunneling, bridging, and peering

Salary is based on experience and location.

Salary range in Denver, CO: $110,000 - 140,000.