Principal / Senior Node.js Engineer (Lead / Architect level)

The product is platform that represents the future of how materials are bought, designed, visualized, and sourced for your space in real time. It’s revolutionizing the way businesses and consumers purchase materials through the use of computer vision and AI. The process of ordering materials for complex projects is often slow, confusing, and frustrating. This solution was created to simplify and streamline that experience.
 

Requirements
Looking for a founding software engineer to own the creation, design, and maintenance of the backend of their end to end platform. Ideal candidate will devise the system's technical architecture in coordination with their peers to ensure the interoperability of their designs. You will work in an environment that is fast paced, has little technical debt, and utilizes the latest technologies.

Customer's platform is currently supported by a backend hosted in AWS, written in TypeScript with Node.js as a runtime and Express as a server. Applications are containerized using Docker and deployed to ECS Fargate using Gitlab for SCM and CI/CD with Datadog for monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Drive the overall architecture of the company's backend systems; including services, nightly data jobs, authentication systems, search indices, workflow engines, etc.

• Manage the company’s infrastructure (currently in AWS), ideally through an IaC solution

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, test suites, and other processes that ensure high engineering velocity while minimizing cost

• Deliver key features in coordination with the other engineers at the company

• Coordinate with stakeholders to conceptualize project timelines and evolving strategy

• Assist in the recruiting process and actively mentor engineers across the company

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer working on backend systems

• Knowledge of common software architectures web, mobile, and SaaS applications

• Mastery of technical design, including data/object modeling and interface/API design

• Expert in data processing, workflow management, queuing systems, infrastructure management, monitoring systems, search, authentication, etc.

• Ability to lead technical discussion and decisions, including framework selection

• Comfortable working directly with business stakeholders and engineers outside your company

• Enjoys working on small teams and evolving startup environments

• Passionate about product and small details to deliver a delightful user experience