Backend Developer

Job Title: Backend Developer

Job ID: 2022-11078

Job Location: Secaucus, NJ or remote

Employment Type: W2

Rate Guidance: $40/hr

Work Eligibility: All Work Authorizations are Permitted – No Visa Transfers

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Where applicable, design client-side and server-side architecture and build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Provide technical and developmental mentorship to subordinates
• Partnering with Product and Content Teams, gather business requirements and design technical solutions to meet those needs
• Liaise with, and provide written feedback to technical and business constituents as necessary
• Set coding standards and help drive the strategic technical direction of our engineering efforts; develop systems to meet or exceed business KPIs
• Understand and modify existing systems as business requirements and consumer behaviors change
• Develop system test criteria and participate in systems testing
• Respond to, isolate and resolve programming problems
• Provide after hours and weekend support for production systems when needed

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer or similar role
• Experience developing API focused Node JS applications
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services
• Familiarity with common stacks and API/SDK integrations
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, DynamoDB), web server technologies (e.g. Apache) and web proxies (e.g. Varnish)
• Knowledge of Customer Identity and Access Management / IDP providers (i.e. Okta, Akamai, etc.)
• Knowledge of Content Delivery Networks (e.g. Akamai) and CI/CD stack
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. PHP, Node, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Node.js, React, Vue.js)
• Strong knowledge of ES6+ and experience with asynchronous operations
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services inclusive of Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, EC2, auto scaling and other micro-services
• Experience with Unit Testing (e.g. Jest, Mocha, Chai)
• Excellent written and verbal skills

Educational Background Required:

• BS in computer science, electrical engineering or a related technical discipline.