Senior Backend Engineer
Skills
Back-End Web DevelopmentComputer ScienceFront-End DevelopmentOOPReact.JsSoftware DevelopmentApache Kafka
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
- Experience engineering high-quality software in object-oriented or Functional language
- Willingness to learn new technologies
- Talent for clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment
- Passion for working in the cloud and automation
Nice to have
- Experience in AWS
- Interest in Functional Programming
- Knowledge of Kafka
- Front end development experience in React
Day to day
- Building new and supporting existing Erlang based microservices that enable product features
- Enhancing the existing platform to increase the amount of business functionality driven by end user configuration
- Enhancing system automation scale, resiliency, deployment
- Maintaining and enhancing common platform components and libraries (AWS, Erlang)
- Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders from the wider organisation to understand and drive requirements and improvements
- Building on our CloudNative platform, enabling more use of AWS technology to aid in speeding up delivery, scale and resiliency
- Growing the engineering community, building on the existing process and practices