Sr. Back End Developer – Node.js​/AWS​/GraphQL

Overview

Sr. Back End Developer – Node.js/AWS/GraphQL

Location:

Charlotte, NC - Hybrid Role 3x/week

Duration: 12+ Months

• Type Script
• Graph
  
  QL - strong exposure

• Lead development and maintenance of complex web-based applications & enterprise systems based on Typescript, Angular, NodeJS.
• Develop target state technology that modernizes core lending platform services leveraging Graph
  
  QL with Apollo Client, Server, and Router, BPMN using Camunda v8, and Event Driven Architecture using Kafka on AWS.
• Demonstrate courage – be willing to take a position to advance design and implementation decisions. Capable of principled push back with both peers and superiors.
• Continuously enhance and optimize code quality, scalability, security, and performance.
• Create clean, maintainable, and well-documented code adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Write automated tests and conduct thorough testing to deliver high-quality, shippable software every sprint.
• Collaborate with product owners, user experience designers, and other team members contributing to the product development process, actively participate in discussions and development ceremonies, propose technical solutions, and translate them into working software.
• Collaborate with Dev Ops teams to deploy and maintain applications into the Production environment.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continuously improve development processes and skills.
• Have a strong bias for action and learning by doing mindset.
• Thrive working in a fast-paced environment.

• Minimum B.S. / M.S. Computer Science or related discipline from accredited college or University.
• Proficient in: object-oriented programming, software engineering techniques, quality engineering, parallel programming, databases, etc.
• 5+ years of professional experience in backend engineering.
• Strong experience with Node.js (including asynchronous programming, event loop, streams and performance optimization). Proven experience in building & maintaining RESTful & Graph
  
  QL APIs.
• Strong understanding of API versioning, authentication & authorization strategies.
• Hands-on experience designing and working with microservices architectures (service communication, data consistency, service discovery, scaling strategies).
• Knowledge of distributed systems concepts (fault tolerance, eventual consistency, message queues).
• Proficiency in AWS cloud services like Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, S3, RDS, Dynamo
  
  DB, Cloud Watch.
• Experience with messaging streams like Kafka, SNS/SQS or other event driven systems.
• Experience with SQL (Postgre
  
  SQL) and No
  
  SQL databases (Dynamo
  
  DB). Solid understanding of indexing, query optimization and data modeling.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies. Basic Dev Ops knowledge about usage of Docker, Terraform, Cloud Watch.

• Mid-Senior level

• Contract

• Information Technology