Senior Node.js Engineer

Description

Company is the forefront of revolutionizing the way hospitality and travel businesses operate. We provide cutting-edge technology solutions to streamline operations and enhance guest experiences globally. We believe in innovation, collaboration, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. If you're looking to work on impactful projects that drive real-world change, join our passionate team of experts.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Node.js Engineer to join our growing engineering team. As a senior member of our team, you will take on a leadership role in designing, implementing, and scaling highly performant systems. You will work with cloud infrastructure, primarily AWS, and build robust microservices that support high-load, real-time applications.

You will be responsible for architecting complex systems, ensuring scalability and efficiency while also providing mentorship to junior developers. This is an exciting opportunity for a self-driven, technically versatile engineer who is comfortable working independently and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architecture & Design: Lead the architecture and design of high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant Node.js applications and microservices running in a cloud environment (primarily AWS)
• Cloud Infrastructure: Utilize AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, and others to ensure that applications are highly available, secure, and performant
• Microservices: Build and manage distributed, high-load microservices that can scale effectively and handle large volumes of concurrent traffic
• High-Performance Systems: Optimize Node.js applications for performance under high load, ensuring minimal latency and maximum throughput
• Multithreading: Implement advanced multithreading techniques to enhance system performance and concurrency
• Code Quality & Best Practices: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while adhering to industry best practices and design patterns

Part of the role will include integration with multiple external APIs, processing of the data, and compiling it in a flexible way to accommodate various output requirements.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a Backend Developer
• In-depth knowledge and experience developing API’s and microservices
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript, and Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (such as Express or equivalent)
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Experience working with various data storage solutions such as Redis, MongoDB, etc
• Experience working with Queuing solutions such as gearman, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc
• Implementing automated testing modules and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Experience with cloud services such as AWS and GCP
• Experience working with Linux and CI/CD processes