Backend Software Engineer (Node.js,TypeScript) (offline)

Client Description
Germany’s largest online provider of experience gifts, we can enrich the lives of our customers even more comprehensively with our combined competence and strength: We know what sparks squeaks, adrenaline attacks, expressions of love and storms of enthusiasm. Client’s mission: inspire in a warm way and create unforgettable memories — for everyone at any time at any place! We give our best every day with over 500 colleagues.

Job Description:
Designing, implementing, and operating customer-facing products to increase the entire shopping experience
Building microservices and self-contained applications including polyglot persistence
Building scalable and cloud-ready software solutions in our AWS environment
Partner with our software engineers, product owners and UI/UX designers in creating and continuously improving end-toend solutions

Qualifications:
Experience in building integrating, and operating highly distributed applications (Microservices, SOA, self-contained systems)
Experience in event-driven architectures, messaging patterns, and Apache Kafka is a plus
Excitement about creating end-to-end solutions for our customers
Passion for knowledge sharing and willingness to mentor other team members in best practices, code quality and tech frameworks
Agile mindset and full-stack thinking

Technical skills:
Strong English skills, German is a plus
NodeJS
Javascript Native
ES6/Typescript
Amazon Webservice
Kubernetes
Apache Kafka/Message Queues
Elasticsearch/SOLR
PostgresSQL/MariaDB/NoSQL
PHP/Magento is a plus
Additionals: SCRUM Teams / Communication Skills / Team-Player / Proactivity

Applied practices: Infrastructure as a Code / Continuous Deployment / Domain-Driven Design (DDD) / Event-driven Architecture / Hexagonal Architecture / Micro Frontends / Contract First

Our tech-stack: React / NodeJS / Jest / JavaScript / TypeScript / PHP / Docker / Kubernetes / Apache Kafka / PostgreSQL / Elastic Search / AWS / Terraform / Helm / Istio / Prometheus / Kibana / Grafana / CloudWatch

We offer:
— A friendly, laid-back work atmosphere with lots of after-work activities and events
— Accounting, tax and annual reporting support
— Medical insurance
— Health/Sports compensation
— Free German & English classes
— Regular corporate events
— Business trips & conference participation

About Nearshorefriends GmbH

We are a German, owner-managed company with more than 20 years of Nearshore experience. Our HQ is located in München, and the development centers are in Kyiv and Katowice.

With quality first, we help our customers to become more valuable, to execute their product vision, and gain a competitive edge, by finding the right IT-experts for their team and bridging cultural gaps.

We find, recruit, assemble, and manage your high-quality Development Team. We enable our customers to achieve rapid upscale of high-class development with little financial risk and high flexibility. Hence their products can be delivered on time and quality.

Working successfully with our customers we perfectly understand their challenges. We listen. We speak the same language. We tell it like it is. With empathy and service mentality we integrate cultural differences.

At this moment there are more than 120 IT-experts working in the nearshore friends group. The interesting fact is that our German management team lives in Kyiv.

We offer:

opportunity to work in a multicultural environment;
centrally located office full of smart people;
medical insurance/sports compensation;
corporate events;
German and English classes.

We are happy to help you develop and grow; that’s why we assist you with development. We have created an outstanding Academy inside of Nearshorefriends, offering an array of IT courses for those willing to start a career and pass some certifications; we can help you find the best courses for various soft and hard skills.

Growing together, we build our common future! Check out our website for more details.

Company website:
https://nearshorefriends.de/en/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/nearshorefriends/