Sr. Backend Developer

[ "You will be expected to participate in architecture evolution, contribute to technical design for microservices, and execute the design in sprints. You are also encouraged to take on leadership elements in your role across all these phases.
You must also help other members of the team with technical queries and troubleshooting on a day to day basis, as required.", "Especially in the execution phase where we expect you to assist the backend lead in realising our overall objectives of the product. Other than your coding duties, you would be expected to continuously upscale the backend team, along with the backend lead, through new ideas, training, knowledge sharing, recruitment etc." ], "exp_desc": [ "of experience in software development. Of which at least 1 year developing REST APIs and microservices.", "The experience range is what we believe has general relevance to our requirement. This is not a rule however, and if you feel you are competent enough, we definitely want to hear from you." ], "skills": [ [ { "description": "Strong proficiency in Javascript and/or Typescript. Strong grasp of promises, generators etc and asynchronous programming in general." }, { "description": "Experience with testing frameworks especially Jest." }, { "description": "Good understanding experience of Node js. This includes the different node js APIs. The more the better, but the following will give you a general idea of what we are looking for", "keySkills": [ "Buffer", "Crypto", "Debugger Inspector", "File System", "Modules - Common JS and ECMAScript Modules", "REPL", "Stream", "Worker Threads", "V8 profiler" ] }, { "description": "Good understanding of bundlers (at least one of - rollup, parcel and webpack) and application of concepts like - tree shaking, code splitting etc." }, { "description": "Web Frameworks - Express/HAPI and development of REST APIs with such frameworks." }, { "description": "Good understanding of REST architecture style, especially HATEOAS. Working experience with Swagger and Open API." }, { "description": "Basic understanding of Graphql servers, schema, mutations, queries and subscriptions." }, { "description": "Practical knowledge of node js debugging and toolsets - Chrome Inspector, Visual Studio Code Inspector etc." } ], [ { "description": "Basic understanding of HTML5 and CSS3. Experience with one or more templating engines such as mustache." }, { "description": "Experience in working with databases, data modelling concepts. NoSQL, especially with query based design techniques, will be added advantage." }, { "description": "Experience working in Agile process." }, { "description": "Understanding of design standards and coding best practices." }, { "description": "Experience with Git, Github and standard workflows, e.g. pull/merge requests." }, { "description": "Work experience in a microservice design team. Understanding of microservice design patterns, at least - API Gateway." }, { "description": "Working experience with Web Socket protocol." }, { "description": "Strong experience with OAuth2/OIDC, especially Authorization Code Flow grant. Basic experience with at least 1 OIDC product, i.e Amazon Cognito, Auth0, Okta, Redhat Keycloak etc." } ] ], "additionalSkills": [ [ { "description": "Understanding of languages like Python, JAVA, C#." }, { "description": "Documentation skills for design and APIs." }, { "description": "Understanding of Node-Red." }, { "description": "Experience using Swagger, reviewing specs and API documentation for quality and standards adherence." }, { "description": "Experience using AWS Services will be added advantage." } ], [ { "description": "Working experience with docker." }, { "description": "Working experience with any container orchestration service." }, { "description": "Good understanding of microservice patterns and event-driven architecture." }, { "description": "Good understanding of Amazon Cognito, Amazon Cloudwatch, AWS IAM roles and policies." }, { "description": "Experience with AWS Cloudformation. Any experience with AWS CDK will be great to have."