Company Description
Company Description
Portonics is a team of technology consultants that specialize in application design, software & mobile application development. Our goal is to help clients understand and make full use of digital technology that can heighten brand awareness and lead to better business.
We are a diverse team of engineers, analysts, and solution architects working on the latest technologies, and running a wide range of projects from business-critical applications to applications serving a large number of customers daily.
We build and manage in-house, client products, and end-to-end services locally and globally. Services include server management, software management, networking, development, deployments, information security, and consultancy.
We are an agile team who are very passionate about what we build. We design solutions to reduce/automate operations. Along with building custom solutions, we leverage open-source technologies. Our teams build, manage, and automate monitoring systems, alerting, and deployments.
As a digital transformation team, we are big on Dev, DevOps culture, and collaboration.
Job Description
ABOUT THIS POSITION
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Node.js Developer to join our team. You will play a key role in developing and maintaining our core backend infrastructure and applications, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability. You will have the opportunity to work on challenging and impactful projects, collaborate with talented engineers, and contribute to the overall success of our company.
- Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and efficient Node.js applications using industry best practices.
- Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure seamless integration between the client and server sides.
- Implement clean, well-documented, and maintainable code adhering to our coding standards.
- Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and stability.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest Node.js technologies, frameworks, and libraries.
- Contribute to the overall architecture and design of our applications.
- Participate in code reviews and provide mentorship to junior developers.
- Identify and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and implement solutions for optimization.
- Work collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- Be proactive in identifying and proposing improvements to our development processes.
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field; with 5+ years of industry experience or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience;
Must have:
- Excellent JavaScript, and NodeJS development experience;
- In-depth knowledge of Node.js core concepts and frameworks (Express, NestJS, etc.)
- Experience with various databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.)
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and API design principles
- Experience in containerization technology such as Docker
- Experience with testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, etc.)
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise-level, mission-critical applications;
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, able to synthesize complex information into succinct executive summaries for internal and external audiences;
- Good verbal and written communication skills in English;
Good to have:
- Experience with PHP (8+)
- Experience with Next.js
- Experience with Redis/Memcached
- Experience in server technologies, specifically AWS/Azure/GCP
- Familiarity with open-source software a plus;
- Familiarity with JIRA, Jenkins, Elasticsearch, Grafana, and Kibana is a plus;
- Experience in Kubernetes will be a plus;
Additional Information
- Communication is extremely important; our engineers work across every team in the organization. Candidates need to be able to communicate not only with other developers but also with management, non-tech team members & external parties.
- Someone who will take ownership of a feature or application from initial conception through release while also assisting others when the need arises.
- Have an understanding of virtualization and containerization as a tool for growing scalability, reliability, and expediency.
- Ability to learn and teach new technologies and skills as new technology is introduced.
- Sound mature judgment and decision-making ability.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- We are looking for honest, dedicated and responsible individuals.
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What We Do
PORTONICS is a team of technology consultants that specializes in web development, software development, social media, online marketing, and branding on the web. When it comes to our clients we are passionate to work together to understand and make full use of digital technology that can heighten, efficiency, brand awareness and lead to better business. WEB & SOFTWARE We build customized interactive and dynamic websites with custom or open source back ends. Our customized web- based solutions including ERP, Websites, e-commerce portal and management solutions. We also have an expertise across a range of content management systems (CMS) and website platforms, both open source and proprietary. Portonics has an intricate understanding when it comes to e-commerce of why customers buy online and what makes a successful end-to-end online store. We are very passionate when it comes to building user friendly portal solutions that combine information access, content distribution and workflow management. DIGITAL MARKETING Our goal is to enhance your online brand presence through social media. Our Social Media Marketing Solutions include online advertising, digital campaigns, page management, Facebook App development, analysis and training. E-LEARNING We offer development of offline and online e-learning courses. Our online e-learning courses are developed with html5 support so it may be viewed in mobile devices. OUTSOURCING When it comes to outsourcing our teams work together with client to engage with the project purpose and it’s content to ensure good communication, project management, usability and development. CONSULTING We help businesses improve efficiency, increase productivity and bottom line profits by incorporating / leveraging software and web technology for businesses. We do a detailed analysis of business needs and processes and collaborate to create web/software products using custom or open source technologies