Senior Backend Developer (Node.js) (offline) $3500-4400

We are looking for a senior Backend developer to join our growing team. This is an exciting project that will involve challenging problem solving and collaborating in architecting an innovative solution from the ground up.

Project is an innovative PC games distribution platform, combined with a full gaming app ecosystem. Platform offers a highly integrative user experience and new business models for developers, gamers and influencers. Our goal is to unify the fragmented gaming industry around one platform.

The combination of cutting-edge technologies we use (including blockchain) enables Platform to aggregate all gamers’ activities in one place: from buying, playing and reselling games, to accessing live-streaming platforms, tournaments, reviews and contests, as well as interacting with communities and brands.

The team is currently composed of 60+ full-time members, working across 5 continents

Key Requirements:
● 4+ years NodeJS/Typescript or Java development experience
● Experience in server/client side JS (nodeJS, expressJS, Typescript)
● Experience with SQL/noSQL databases
● Experience building large scale distributed systems
● Strong object-oriented design and development experience
● Knowledge of the principles to construct fault-tolerance, reliability and durability software systems
● Experience building microservices and designing REST APIs
● Experience with message brokers
● Proficiency in English, with great interpersonal skills

Your challenges:
All our services require highly scalable server architectures (+1mil concurrent user) where blockchain will ultimately impact all our infrastructural choices. Platform could be considered as a multitude of smaller sub-projects, each having its own team leader. Your ability to advise and collaborate with multiple sub-teams simultaneously will define our project's success. You will work with offices all around the world, working remotely will be part of your daily routine.

Your tasks:
Design, implement, test, document and deploy backend services in the cloud. As a member of a feature team, you will be responsible for your services running in production and will ensure their availability, elasticity and resilience. You will contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable and maintainable software. You will develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enable team velocity. You will take part in the team's scrum rituals. You will develop documentation on the new built system.

You will:
Learn every day and be involved in many exciting projects. Have the opportunity to grow with an ambitious and fast-paced company, on an innovative market. Have a lot of autonomy to put into practice what you advise, to set up new processes, and to share and implement your ideas with the team. Join an enthusiastic team and take part in Platform's international expansion. Work with passionate colleagues in a multicultural, open-minded environment

Will be a plus:
● GCP and/or AWS experience
● Experience with Kafka
● Experience deploying microservices with docker, kubernetes
● Experience with CI/CD using Gitlab-CI
● Experience with some aspect(s) of computer security: network security, application security, security protocols, cryptography, etc...)

We offer:
● Ability to work on a fully remote basis
● Competitive salary
● 15 Vacation days per year;
● 5 Sick days.
● 4 Day offs(family reasons)
● The working environment of young, friendly people;
● Comfortable office;
● Possibility of learning and development;
● Corporative parties and team-building activities;
● Tea, coffee, and cookies included;
● Parking.

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