Passport is hiring a
Sr Software Engineer

Summary

The job is a full-time software development position at Passport, located in Latin America. The role involves solving synchronization and load issues of the distributed API, optimizing data queries, implementing scheduled tasks, analyzing log data with Elasticsearch, using AWS tools, enriching the knowledge base in Notion, understanding international shipping, dealing with popular e-commerce platforms, and collaborating with clients to ensure success. Requirements include 5+ years of software development experience, a technical degree, proficiency in English, expertise with specific technologies, ability to communicate effectively, adapt quickly, work autonomously, take accountability, and be transparent and accurate.

Requirements

• 5+ years software development experience
• A college graduate with a technical degree
• Proficient in English reading and writing
• Expertise with TypeScript, NodeJS, Express & Nest frameworks, MySQL, Redis, Git, Elasticsearch
• Experience in building distributed cloud-based REST API web services
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly and collaborate with other teams
• Transparency and accuracy in task management
• Fast adaptation to existing code styles, practices and conventions combined with the ability to take an active role in their continuous review and improvement
• Work autonomy: skill of improving things with little guidance, but without any hesitation about clarifying questionable points
• Accountability: You take ownership of your work, the answers you provide to others, and learn from your mistakes

Responsibilities

• Solve synchronization and load issues of our distributed API
• Create and optimize relational data queries collaborating with our data specialists
• Implement effective scheduled data processing tasks with our internal Routines framework
• Generate properly tagged log data and analyze it with Elasticsearch
• Use the power of cloud-based AWS tools and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring
• Enrich our fancy knowledge base in Notion with new details and articles
• Learn about the world of international shipping
• Deal with popular e-commerce platforms as Shopify, Bigcommerce, Magento
• Understand our clients’ pain points and needs, collaborate with some of them directly to ensure the success