Senior Back-End Developer

Summary

Join Truelogic, a leading nearshore staff augmentation services provider, and become a Senior Application Developer. You will work in a forward-thinking environment at a financial services firm, focusing on a comprehensive mortgage platform. This role involves analyzing system performance, developing and implementing solutions for high availability and scalability, and collaborating with engineering teams. You will design and develop backend services, write high-quality code, implement testing strategies, and develop telemetry systems. The position requires expertise in serverless functions, TypeScript, AWS services, and various testing frameworks. You will also contribute to incident response and promote best practices for building reliable systems.

Requirements

• Experience debugging problems in a highly concurrent environment
• 5+ years experience working with IT leadership to create technical strategies and with senior IT groups in an advisory role
• Expertise with Typescript across software engineering, security, data interchange, data management, etc
• Must have experience in developing Enterprise level applications using Microservice architecture in the cloud, testing and observability
• Must have worked in a multi-developer/multi-site environment with multi-site management experience

Responsibilities

• Analyze system performance and reliability challenges, collaborating with engineering teams to develop and implement solutions that ensure high availability, scalability, and optimal performance in alignment with business objectives
• Develop and implement testing strategies, performance monitoring, and telemetry solutions across a range of projects
• Collaborate closely with development teams to identify and address potential issues, ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and performant
• Design and develop backend services and tools using serverless functions, TypeScript, and AWS services
• Create RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and data processing pipelines
• Write high-quality, testable code with comprehensive unit and integration tests
• Ensure code quality through static analysis, code reviews, and adherence to coding standards
• Implement end-to-end, load, and performance tests to validate system functionality, scalability, and reliability
• Utilize testing frameworks and tools like Jest, Cypress, Artillery, Playwright, or Selenium
• Automate testing processes to ensure continuous quality assurance
• Develop and maintain telemetry systems for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing performance data across all systems
• Integrate with logging and monitoring tools, and building observability dashboards
• Configure monitoring and alerting tools to proactively identify and address performance issues and system anomalies
• Define and measure key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level objectives (SLOs)
• Collaborate with development teams to promote best practices for building observable and reliable systems
• Provide guidance on instrumentation, logging, and performance optimization techniques
• Stay up-to-date with the latest serverless technologies, testing frameworks, and observability tools
• Continuously improve skills and knowledge in relevant areas
• Participate in incident response and post-mortem analysis to identify root causes and implement preventive measures
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and learning
• Embody and promote the organization's desired culture and values, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment
• Take ownership of identifying and mitigating technical risks that impact system reliability
• Collaborate with engineering teams to define and manage the scope of reliability-focused projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise with Python across software engineering, security, data interchange, data management, etc
• Should be highly skilled in testing frameworks like Selenium, Playwright, etc as well as telemetry tools such as OpenTelemetry, Zipkin, New Relic (APM), etc