DESCRIPTION:

Design, develop and deploy user experiences with a focus on usability, high availability, low latency and scalability.
Building out and improving our new Node.js backend systems to meet the needs of a modern and growing business.
Operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team in a DevOps culture.
Continuously improving our product by innovating the service through the usage of A/B tests.
You will find yourself working in a continuous learning environment and a fast-paced market, with real opportunities to gain new experiences and make a lasting impact on our product, business, and customers.

OUR TECH STACK:

Our core programming language is JavaScript (ES2020), with our website utilising React.js and GraphQL. Our back-end platform consists of a collection of Node.js Microservices running under Kubernetes. Our existing platform is a mix of technologies, including C#, Elixir, Golang, Java, Ruby and Python. Don't worry if you don't know our languages or technologies, although the more you know will help your application. We allow all our new engineers to get up to speed quickly through a thoughtful and supportive induction programme.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING:

Discuss and promote the implementation of new features
Listen to the customer and suggest feasibility options
As a team commit to goals, deadlines, and objectives
As a team design and define system architectures and contribute to technical decisions
Communicating your needs clearly and responsibly
Currently, the platform is used by millions of users worldwide and contains billions of searchable online historical records. Connecting people to their family stories. One of the key challenges of the role will be helping the business scale the existing service to support an anticipated increase in user demand (possibly 10x our current traffic).

Your skill and experience in building scalable, performant solutions which are robust under increased user demand will be invaluable.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

You have a proven track record in Software Engineering roles, with exposure to both front and back-end development.

You have a proven track record in Software Engineering roles, with exposure to both front and back-end development.
You have a few years of experience coding with React and Node.js, and you are up for learning more!
You possess in-depth knowledge of writing testable code and utilising Jest as your testing library.
You love learning and embrace our self-directed daily learning hour, mentorship and Engineering guilds.
You possess in-depth knowledge of and a genuine care for sound engineering practices, including pair programming, upfront automated testing, continuous deployment, and trunk-based development.
You are a strong communicator and love working as part of a team.
Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal
Minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience

AWESOME BUT NOT REQUIRED:

Experience testing using Cypress, Selenium and/or Enzyme
Experience with C# .NET Framework

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Be part of our collegial environment where responsibility and authority are shared equally amongst colleagues and help create our company culture
A culture in which we don’t criticise failure but ensure we learn from our mistakes
An Agile environment where your ideas are welcome
The possibility to grow and experience different projects
Fully remote
Ongoing Training & Mentoring
The possibility of travelling

- ATTENTION! THIS POSITION IS FOR PORTUGAL OR BRAZIL-BASED ONLY

Senior Fullstack Engineer - Javascript

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