Senior Backend Engineer

Cyfle•Mahwah, NJ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We have partnered with a manufacturing company in Mahwah, NJ to provide them with a Senior Backend Engineer. Please review the below description and let us know if you are interested. Prioritized Must Have Skills for the Senior Backend Engineer: #1. Bachelors degree in Computer Science or another related field #2. 5+ years of experience with JavaScript/Node #3. 5+ years of experience with a least one static language (e.g. Java, C/C++) and at least one dynamic language (e.g. Ruby, Python) #4. 5+ years designing and implementing RESTful APIs using microservice architecture #5. 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying solutions utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Route 53, Lambda, IAM, ECS and API Gateway #6. Mastery of multiple modern platforms such as Git, AWS, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Travis, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, IAC, etc. #7. Proficient knowledge on SQL and NoSQL databases #8. Proficiency in a Unix/Linux environment and experience working with CLI #9. Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, and Chai

Requirements

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or another related field
5+ years of experience with JavaScript/Node
5+ years of experience with a least one static language (e.g. Java, C/C++) and at least one dynamic language (e.g. Ruby, Python)
5+ years designing and implementing RESTful APIs using microservice architecture
5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying solutions utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Route 53, Lambda, IAM, ECS and API Gateway
Mastery of multiple modern platforms such as Git, AWS, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Travis, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, IAC, etc.
Proficient knowledge on SQL and NoSQL databases
Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals and design patterns
Proficiency in a Unix/Linux environment and experience working with CLI
Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, and Chai

Nice To Haves

Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
5+ years designing and implementing GraphQL APIs using microservice architecture
AWS Cloud and/or Terraform certifications and trainings
Familiarity with data science techniques, hands-on experience with ML frameworks and algorithms
Expert familiarity with React

Responsibilities

Collaborate with UX, Culinary, Video, Firmware, Software, and Hardware Engineering Teams to review requirements, design, configure and deploy new services
Contribute to architecture, instrumentation and performance design decisions and carrying out POCs whenever required
Produce well designed, high quality and reusable code by applying design patterns and best practices in software development for agility, reliability, and scalability of the services
Proactively monitor performance and system health with observability and AWS tooling.
Automate our infrastructure deployment and configuration management pipelines and create tooling so we can all work faster.
Refactor code base from time to time to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability of the services
Design and expand on SQL and NoSQL database schema
Participate in code reviews
Carry out testing and debugging
Participate in daily standups and weekly sync-up meetings with stakeholders
Participate in sprint planning sessions by reviewing goals and grooming stories.
Scale architecture with modern technologies leveraging the AWS platform
Effectively connecting to a culture of delivering high quality content around the brand vision