Backend Engineer

at  OnePort 365

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience working as a backend engineer.
• Experience with Microservices and Rest architectures.
• Experience with building Restful APIs with Node.js/Express.
• Intermediate level understanding of JavaScript (ES6+).
• A firm command of Typescript.
• Experience with MongoDB database and mongoose ORM.
• Experience with Unit and Integration testing (Heads up, we use Jest).
• Understanding of object-oriented programming
• Experience with the design and implementation of APIs.
• Technical Writing & Documentation Skills is a requirement.
• Demonstrated ability to create order out of chaos, with minimal oversight.
• Ability to contribute to the following areas: CI/CD, Product Quality, Technical Debt Management, Agile Maturity.

• Design, develop and implement responsive web designs and mobile apps that directly support our customer’s digital experience and power our products and infrastructure.
• Participate in code reviews and software architecture decisions.
• Write well-tested and documented code.
• Propose best practices regarding code organization, design patterns, and conventions in a backend development environment.
• Build and maintain public APIs.
• Effectively work with a team of other backend engineers, frontend engineers as well as the good folks in Product, Design and Quality Assurance.
• Manage the interchange of data between the server and the users.
• Actively participate in application lifecycle and have a deep focus on coding and debugging.
• Actively troubleshoot and work closely with the Quality Assurance team.
• Integrate the front-end elements built by the frontend team into our application both mobile and web.
• Continuously improve our web pages and mobile pages for maximum speed and scalability.
• Establish a structure and design for our back-end engineering on various devices both mobile and web.
• Design a framework for creating user apps that grow with the needs of the company.
• Effect principles to ensure that our company website renders well across various platforms.
• Prioritize the development of features to always enhance the user experience.
• Constantly monitor website performance for site usability problems and resolve the issues in a timely manner.
• Build codes that can be reproduced and reusable for the future.
• Create intensive user experience as well as highly creative thinking to create new procedures to see data.
• Work hand in hand with frontend developers to ensure our solutions are top notch.
• Plan with key stakeholders to discuss customer needs.
• Always make sound decisions and understand needs from both the business and customer standpoint.
• Develop specific goals, objectives, and strategic plans to help the organization achieve its strategic plans.
• Ensure conformity with standards and procedures and ensure achievement of set objectives.
• Work with content and marketing teams to deliver on feature and deadlines.
• Jointly review the feasibility of new products and be part of the design from end to end.
• Contribute to the company’s marketing roadmap in line with the engineering needs.
• Understand the dynamics of the company’s current position and where we are going to drive value creation.