Senior Backend Developer (Remote)

Company: IT Associates
Location: Richmond
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Full-Time/Direct Hire Position Location - 100% Remote
Our client is looking to add a backend focused, mission driven Senior Developer to join their Research and Development team. This developer/engineer will have hands-on experience in enterprise software/product development, understand critical components of information security, and must be self-driven.
The chosen candidate will contribute to the planning, design, development, and maintenance of API-driven, customer facing products. Developers also provide support for the design and integration of various components of security technology, including development and recommendations for new technologies, as appropriate.
Position Responsibilities--- Leads cross-functional development to bring prototypes to life, providing constructive feedback to optimize implementation and usability--- Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices while communicating tradeoffs--- Implement, maintain, and support software integrations--- Provide solutions to technical problems of varying scope and complexity--- Collaborate with product, services, sales, etc. to determine priorities and risks associated with projects--- Ensure all relevant processes, procedures and product documentation is up to date--- Follow continuous integration/continuous development processes, peer review, coding style, and development conventions using version control systems (bitbucket/git)--- Actively participate in daily team standups, the LeSS agile process, peer code reviews, and occasional pair programming--- Collaborate with other developers on planning and working use cases, features, and tasks--- Ability to work independently or as part of a group effort, as required To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required Experience, Skills and Knowledge--- 5+ years of deep JavaScript experience with experience across the development stack--- Experience with AWS serverless computing and technologies--- Demonstrated understanding of data storage, caching, and modeling practices--- Demonstrated understanding of design paradigms, software architecture, and design patterns--- Experience with task tracking (e.g., JIRA, Github, or Trello)--- Willing to solve engineering challenges new to them and the team
Preferred Experience, Skills and Knowledge--- Experience with Typescript--- Experience with AWS CDK--- Experience with Snowflake, dbt--- Experience with AWS Fargate, EKS, or similar--- Experience with developing Slack Apps with Bolt--- Experience with Google Drive API--- Optimistic, improvement-minded and detail-oriented in organizational leadership--- Experience with PaaS/SaaS patterns utilizing a serverless approach--- Comfortable working in a dynamic environment driven by external demands--- Community-oriented/involvement in thought leadership demonstrates trade expertise--- Familiar with LeSS Methodology, or system decomposition and work task organization, as used inAgile methodology

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