Backend Engineer Databases & NodeJS
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Backend Engineer
Our client, a leading technology innovation lab within a major pharmaceutical and aesthetics corporation, is on a mission to transform the beauty business. This sector is experiencing rapid growth and disruption, and we are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to add to a high-performing team to drive that transformation.
Our team has successfully launched a new and innovative technology platform that serves millions of consumers, tens of thousands of specialized providers, and thousands of internal colleagues. Since its launch, this platform has delivered curated promotions, personalized consumer experiences, and is utilized by millions as part of their beauty and wellness journey. We are now preparing to launch a new array of game-changing technologies on this successfully adopted platform.
As the Senior Software Engineer, you will report to the Software Engineering Manager and continuously collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to solve the most critical technical problems.
What You Will Do
- Champion code quality, reusability, scalability, and security.
- Position yourself as the full-stack, backend-focused performance optimization expert within our engineering group.
- Collaborate with a team of engineers, architects, product managers, and designers to deliver elegant, resilient, and solid products.
- Take ownership over your code, removing any ambiguity during implementation by collaborating effectively with your team.
- Conduct design and code reviews.
- Enjoy learning new processes, tools, and technologies.
- Care about who you work with and how work is done. We hire carefully, and the entire team is allowed to take part in evaluating potential hires.
- Relate to our core values (see below) and contribute to a positive working environment and culture.
Required Experience & Technical Skills
- 8+ years as a Software Engineer with a passion for backend software development.
- Deep understanding and experience in debugging PostgreSQL query performance.
- Demonstrated experience optimizing performance of backend Node.js services.
- Demonstrated track record of designing, launching, and maintaining production back-end systems.
- Ownership mindset over systems through dashboard creation, improvement, and proactive monitoring.
- Experience with Node.js/Typescript or a similar asynchronous tech stack.
- Strong data modeling experience for both operational and analytical workloads, especially with an eye towards efficient query patterns.
- Experience with Microservices and Event-Driven Architecture using AWS, Serverless, Lambda or Docker and Kubernetes.
- A proponent of unit, integration, and performance testing.
Core Values
- Be Humble: You're smart yet always interested in learning from others.
- Work Transparently: You always deal in an honest, direct, and transparent way.
- Take Ownership: You embrace responsibility and find joy in having the answers.
- Learn More: Through blog posts, newsletters, podcasts, video tutorials, and meetups, you regularly self-educate and improve your skill set.
- Show Gratitude: You show appreciation and return kindness to those you work with.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.