Node.js

Important Information

Experience: 7 to 10 years

Job Mode: Full-time 

Work Mode: Work from home, On-site or Hybrid

Job Summary

As a Software Engineer III, you will play a critical role in developing and implementing secure software solutions to protect our systems and data.

Responsibilities and Duties

As a Senior Engineer on the team, you will: 

• Interact with Product Managers to define, influence and gather requirements. 
• Interact with various stakeholders to define robust architectural solutions, with special attention to observability, availability, scalability and API design. 
• Provide technical leadership on mission critical projects 
• Propose and drive engineering initiatives to reduce technical debt and ensure solid technical foundation 
• Guide and mentor junior engineers on design and implementation, provide meaningful feedback on PR code reviews; be a strong advocate for engineering best practices 
• Actively write code on important projects. 
• Help drive releases, on-call rotation, production incident response and post-mortems 
• Participate in quarterly and annual roadmap planning. 
• Help hire and mentor engineers 

Your experience should include... 

• 7+ years of software industry experience with expertise in Javascript & Node.js 
• Strong experience building single-page web apps using modern frameworks, e.g. React, Ember.js, AngularJS, etc. 
• Solid understanding of core JavaScript concepts like scope/closures, the event loop and asynchronous callbacks, promises. 
• Strong experience with MySQL, ElasticSearch and Redis 
• Ownership of the entire software development lifecycle, starting from requirement gathering, scoping, and planning to release and production monitoring and maintenance. 
• History of demonstrated desire to learn, document, and share knowledge with others. 
• Expertise in large-scale cloud-based distributed systems 
• Expertise in designing and implementing external-facing REST APIs that are standardized, intuitive, easy-to-use, consistent, and secure. 
• Experience in messaging systems, asynchronous processing, event-driven architecture, monolith architecture, SOA, and microservices 
• Experience with Test-Driven Development; observability instrumentation 
• Experience leading technical teams on mission-critical projects. 
• Expert knowledge in Scrum process and ceremonies. 

Bonus points: 

• 2+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services. 
• Prior experience within payments and risk domains 
• Experience with domain decomposition and breaking monolith into (micro)services 

About Encora

Encora is the preferred digital engineering and modernization partner of some of the world’s leading enterprises and digital native companies. With over 9,000 experts in 47+ offices and innovation labs worldwide, Encora’s technology practices include Product Engineering & Development, Cloud Services, Quality Engineering, DevSecOps, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience, Cybersecurity, and AI & LLM Engineering.

At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and qualifications, and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.