Backend Developer (Node.js)

At Maker (Permanent), in Portugal
Expires at: 2024-09-13
Remote policy: Full remote

Join us to revolutionize the experience of ecommerce and help brands and retailers 10x their
digital marketing content.

What We Do?

• Maker is an engagement platform built from the ground up to help deliver the richest, most compelling content for commerce. We help online retailers and brands enhance existing websites with compelling content, dramatically increasing engagement, conversion, and revenue growth.
• We’ve combined the best of design, web-publishing, and analytics tools in a single platform that can enhance any existing site with 10x richer content with zero code, development cost, or risk.
• Marketers and designers use our software to create, source, publish & optimize interactive content for their product pages, landing pages, lookbooks, blog posts, user-generated stories, and more.
• Our customers include Walmart, Anthropologie, Rue21, and many others. 

We are looking for developers with solid fundamentals in software development, systems, troubleshooting, sharp coding skills, and a passion for working on the latest technologies in a fast-paced environment.

• As a backend developer, your job will be highly technical and hands-on.
• You will also need to manage our infrastructure on Vercel, AWS, Fastly, and Cloudflare.
• Our stack is mostly Node.js (using Rescript) running on serverless functions.

Your typical day-to-day will involve:

• Taking complete ownership of Maker's technology platform development including hands-on development, backend architecture, technical support, and technology strategy.
• Exploring and evaluating new developments in tech that can benefit our products and platform, or the operational effectiveness of the software development team.

Main requirements

• 8+ years as a writer of clean, readable, and maintainable code and tests
• experience in building Node.js applications
• have experience building APIs and integrating with third-party APIs
• have worked on key functionality for a cloud-based product
• have experience with test-driven development and unit testing
• experience in software engineering and architecture
• experience building at least two products from scratch, and then scaling them from 10X to 100X.
• good communication skills

Nice to have

• having experience working on an internal product (an application or CMS) is a plus
• experience working in a product-based startup is a plus