Backend Developer

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining and develop all parts of a complex service-oriented system
• Work with a large arsenal of open source and cutting-edge technologies such as Node.js, -Angular.js, MySQL, Docker, RabbitMQ and Redis.
• Plan and implement model data structures for scalability
• Write secure code
• Participate in all phases of the development life cycle
• Work on the maintenance and improvement of existing data structures
• Research, evaluate and analyze technical and design requirements
• Develop additional server level functionality and tools using a .NET language (C# preferred).
• Troubleshoot and fix bugs/flaws to ensure servers are running optimally.
• Incorporate standards-based development processes for website and web/mobile applications.

Job Skills:

• Data migration, transformation, and scripting
• Setup and administration of backups
• Outputting data in different formats
• Really good understanding of the Linux ecosystem and experience with server management
• Experience with automation tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Experience with Docker and how to use it in the context of Node.js and micro-services
• Experience with high availability solutions (load balancing, HAProxy…)
• Familiar with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with service discovery tools like Consul, Etcd or regular DNS (SRV records)
• Knowledge of either CoffeeScript or LiveScript