Senior Backend Software Engineer (AWS, Node)

Summary

Join our client, an Australian-based company, in their remote team in the Philippines as a Senior Backend Software Engineer and play a key role in their development team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related
• At least 1 to 5 years of experience in software engineering
• Experience utilizing NodeJS and Javascript for backend development
• Knowledgeable in AWS native stack such as: API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, Dynamo, RDS etc
• Knowledgeable with Domain Driven Design, Microservices, RESTful APIs
• Ability to work on an Agile / Scrum environment
• Strong documentation skills and experience with any of the following: Confluence, Jira, GitHub, and VSCode
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
• Can effectively collaborate and communicate with the team

Responsibilities

• Participate in Lean / Agile / Scrum events
• Attend daily standup meetings
• Monitor Agile board for assigned tasks
• Collaborate closely with key team members
• Utilize Github for version control and collaboration
• Initiate work on assigned cards/tasks
• Complete software developments according to requirements
• Create and manage pull requests for code review and actively participate in code reviews
• Address and fix bugs identified during development
• Develop and maintain backend platform on a daily basis
• Implement software solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS
• Document architecture and codebase for future reference
• Work on projects involving multiple services and technologies
• Develop new features from concept to implementation
• Foster collaboration and good communication within the team for efficient workflow

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Typescript
• Knowledgeable AWS Infrastructure as Code: CDK (Cloud Development Kit)