Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TrueChoice Solutions, Inc. is a rapidly growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company that specializes in real-time preference analytics. They are seeking a Backend Developer to join their team, responsible for developing and enhancing backend services for web applications while collaborating with various stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Work cross-team (project management, data scientists, and developers) with key-stakeholders to design, develop, and deploy critical backend services for web applications (both internal and client-facing)
- Design, create, and enhance features for the core web application platform using backend technologies following company and industry best practices
- Create and enhance features for tools supporting the creation and deployment of backend services
- Create, enhance, and maintain build and deployment automation code for our software development workflow
- Create, enhance, and maintain test code (unit, functional, integration, and end-to-end) for all developed software
- Create documentation (guides, tutorials, presentations) for developed software to be shared cross-team and with key-stakeholders (across all spectrums of technical knowledge)
- Perform self-review and peer-review of software design documentation and written code amongst the engineering team
- Perform technical evaluation projects of existing, emerging, or experimental technologies
Skills
- Minimum of 3+ years of working experience with a focus on backend web development using current industry technologies
- Strong knowledge of professional software engineering practices within the full software development lifecycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Strong computer science fundamentals - object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis
- Strong proficiency in O.O.P. and O.O.D. with JavaScript
- Strong proficiency in O.O.P. and O.O.D. with Java, Python, and/or C#
- Strong experience building backend applications using NodeJS with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience building application backends using Java
- Experience developing web applications utilizing REST API
- Experience writing unit, functional, integration, and end-to-end tests
- Experience with the use of containers (Docker) for local development, with CI/CD, and production hosting
- Experience with Git (GitHub, BitBucket, etc.) for version control
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent short-term and long-term planning skills
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Customer-first mentality
- TypeScript is a big plus
- Java is a big plus
- React/Vue/Svelte/Angular (Next.js is a plus)
- GraphQL is a plus
- Jest/Mocha/TestCafe/Cypress
- Docker
- AWS (CDK, SAM, Lambda, Fargate)
- Creating and deploying packages to npm is a major plus
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