Sr. Back End Engineer

Why iCrossing

We work at the intersection of bright pixels of creativity, sharp use of data points, innovative tech, and cutting-edge digital know how. That's how we turn brand potential into business performance. And that's why we stand out.

We believe our biggest asset is our combination of different backgrounds, cultures, and disciplines that come together to form one epic unit. 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 insights, talent, and audiences.

About this job

As an iCrossing Senior Back End Engineer, you'll join a group of talented technologists tasked with developing and maintaining large-scale Node.js microservices functional infrastructure, all running on Amazon Web Services.

What you'll do

• Be instrumental in developing digital experiences using cutting-edge technology by leveraging your Node.js software development experience.
• Be a key part of an application development project team comprised of onshore and offshore developers using Scrum ceremonies and methodologies.
• Develop testable, reusable, and efficient code in Node.js for highly visible marketing and eCommerce Websites.
• Ensure timely completion of your coding assignments and deliverables, as well as provide system-level documentation. Collaborate with Technical Managers to estimate specific work assignments, ensure the quality of your deliverables and provide status updates, and highlight issues.
• You will participate in all Scrum processes, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, and Sprint Retrospectives.

Who you are

• 4+ years of experience building websites, APIs, or microservices.
• Creativity and experience developing best-in-class software applications in Node.js using ECMAScript (ES) modules, NPM and Serverless Framework.
• Experience writing Node.js code that interacts with SQL or NoSQL databases.
• Hold in-depth knowledge of JavaScript.
• Worked in Cloud Web Services such as AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB.
• Hold strong notions of security best practices (e.g. using IAM Roles, Policies, KMS, etc.).
• Knowledgeable of working with git and shells in a terminal on daily basis.
• Skilled at setting your local development environment tooling and deploying code to a remote server environment.

Great if you also have

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

Our Mission & Values

We believe that each one of us has a role in making iCrossing an energizing and inspiring place to work within these operating principles. We're proud of our diverse, cross-disciplinary team who share a passion for constant improvement.

Trust x Transparency - We're built on an open-door culture, where operating with transparency and integrity goes without saying. We hear, respect and value each other's opinion and input-and know trust is built through actions, notwords.

Performance x Accountability - We tackle projects with grit and a hunger for excellence, knowing there's a "why" for every "what." We're partners in growth: for our clients, our business and our people-and we take full responsibility for everything wedo.

Collaboration x Celebration - We believe success is fueled by collaboration. We root for those who are relentlessly curious-seeking new & better ways to do, create and build. And we recognize the people who go the extra mile to make ithappen.

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.