Senior NodeJS Developer
NIC’s Client
● Accountable for designing and building advanced applications using node.js
● Analyzing user stories and participating in sprint planning, scrums, demos and retrospectives
● Accountable for performance and usability in all solutions
● Accountable for working with outside data sources and APIs
● Coordinating with Architect team on new designs and foundational / infrastructural application changes
● Coordinating with Architect team and front-end team to design RESTful APIs
● Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
● Integrating back-end services
● Understanding the need for optimized / customized mobile service responses / payloads
● Accountable for Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
● Accountable for working on bug fixing and improving application performance
● Ensuring the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
● Accountable for maintaining code quality, organization and automatization
● Accountable for continuously discovering, evaluating, and implementing new technologies to optimize development efficiency
● Learning new technologies when required
● Performing peer code reviews for immediate and related teams
● Understanding of continuous integration / continuous delivery concepts and the ability to troubleshoot related issues
● Assisting the QA team with new product releases and bug fixes for products
● Providing architectural direction on behalf of the architect
● Providing estimates for new initiatives
Job Requirement:
● Autonomous, proactive, and fun to work with
● Excellent English, both written and verbal
● Expert proficiency in ECMAScript 6; basic familiarity with ECMAScript 7 and TypeScript
● Professional experience building GraphQL web services using Koa or Express
● Complete understanding of HTTP protocol fundamentals
● The ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
● Professional experience writing and maintaining automated tests using Mocha, Chai and Sinon.
● Excellent Git fundamentals
How to stand out
● AWS DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Kinesis, and S3 experience
● Contributions to open source
● Continuous integration and deployment experience
● Docker toolchain experience
● Familiarity with V8 Javascript engine internals
● Any additional programming languages
