Staff Backend Engineer

Job Description

What youll do

Act as the technical subject matter expert to ensure technical capabilities align with our Product team to ensure technical initiatives are well align with our Product roadmap;
Determining and developing pragmatic and achievable refactoring initiatives. Ensure that our BE engineering members are on the same way;
Identifying possible risks and dependencies in our projects and mitigating them;
Breaking down complex technical epics into executable engineering tasks;
Working with our DevOps team to create an efficient CI/CD pipeline to ensure we can push code to production reliably, confidently;
Leading code reviews, ensuring that we are growing our codebase in a performant, scalable, maintainable way;
Run frequent knowledge transfer, lunch & learn sessions with our engineering members to set best practices, and foster a healthy engineering culture.

What youll bring

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent
10+ years experience working in an engineering driven product organization, at least 2 of which leading complex technical initiatives
Strong knowledge and hands on experience with JavaScript, TypeScript and NodeJS;
Strong knowledge running production grade APIs in a cloud native environment (AWS);
Strong knowledge in DynamoDB;
Great verbal and written communication skills;
Ability to lead technical discussions, and keep them on track/point;
Experience and knowledge at the framework level: ExpressJs, NestJS (an asset);
Experience with Python (an asset)
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and related container technologies (an asset);
Specifically knowledge of running APIs on ECR/EKS (an asset);
Android or Progressive WebApp experience (an asset).

Work in Canada

Employment Options

Professional Experience

Skills

• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• Node.js
• DynamoDB