Senior Back-End Engineer

Responsibilities: 

• Writing & implementing clean, readable & comprehensive code based on requirements. 
• Developing application programming interfaces (APIs) to support mobile functionality. 
• Routinely testing platforms for ease of use, speed and other quality factors.
• Estimating & predicting timelines with the Product Lead. 
• Investigating & fixing bugs, faults and defects. 
• Taking driver & client feedback on existing features and assisting with solutions to meet their needs. 
• Assisting with unit testing. 
• Working with the testing team ensuring requirements have been met & debugging
• Creating and maintaining feature/system documentation. 
• Ensuring all tasks on Jira are being attended to timeously and creating own tasks to assist with project planning. 
• Testing and deploying software services and tools into development & production environments. 
• Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability. 
• Providing advice and creative solutions for expanding and enhancing our platform.
• Assist the Support team with urgent bugs which were reported by clients.
• Collaboration with the development team on projects. 
• Being on standby after hours when deploying to production to assist testers in case there are any issues. 
• Researching, designing, implementing, and managing software services. 
• Attending UI/UX design, Product Lead & Stakeholder meetings to provide guidance on platform capabilities. 
• Assisting with recommendations for upscaling our platforms. 
• Remaining up to date with the terminology, concepts, and best practices. 
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers. 
• Taking responsibility for all development work, delegating tasks efficiently and ensuring the Dev team is being guided to meet their time requirements.

Requirements: 

• More than 8 years of experience 
• Proficient with Google Cloud Platform (or similar) Cloud Functions, React, Node and TypeScript. 
• Experience with NoSQL databases Knowledge of code linting and formatting tools (ESLint, Prettier, Husky) 
• Microservices knowledge/experience 
• Experience with architecture and design principles. 
• Building to consider maintainability, performance, security requirements, and impact. 
• Knowledge of technological trends 
• Strategic thinking 
• Problem-solving aptitude 
• Experience with scaling technology