Senior Back-End Engineer

Responsibilities

• Writing & implementing clean, readable & comprehensive code based on requirements.
• Developing application programming interfaces (APIs) to support mobile functionality.
• Routinely testing platforms for ease of use, speed and other quality factors.
• Estimating & predicting timelines with the Product Lead.
• Investigating & fixing bugs, faults and defects.
• Taking driver & client feedback on existing features and assisting with solutions to meet their needs.
• Assisting with unit testing.
• Working with the testing team ensuring requirements have been met & debugging
• Creating and maintaining feature/system documentation.
• Ensuring all tasks on Jira are being attended to timeously and creating own tasks to assist with project planning.
• Testing and deploying software services and tools into development & production environments.
• Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability.
• Providing advice and creative solutions for expanding and enhancing our platform.
• Assist the Support team with urgent bugs which were reported by clients.
• Collaboration with the development team on projects.
• Being on standby after hours when deploying to production to assist testers in case there are any issues.
• Researching, designing, implementing, and managing software services.
• Attending UI/UX design, Product Lead & Stakeholder meetings to provide guidance on platform capabilities.
• Assisting with recommendations for upscaling our platforms.
• Remaining up to date with the terminology, concepts, and best practices.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers.
• Taking responsibility for all development work, delegating tasks efficiently and ensuring the Dev team is being guided to meet their time requirements.

• More than 8 years of experience
• Proficient with Google Cloud Platform (or similar) Cloud Functions, React, Node and Type Script.
• Experience with No
  
  SQL databases Knowledge of code linting and formatting tools (ESLint, Prettier, Husky)
• Microservices knowledge/experience
• Experience with architecture and design principles.
• Building to consider maintainability, performance, security requirements, and impact.