Desired Skills and Experience

  • You should be enthusiastic about learning and applying new cutting edge technologies.
  • You take ownership of your own work.
  • You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and are able to convey a very technical situation to less technical colleagues.
  • You are able to plan and lead a project from start to finish.
  • You are pragmatic, able to determine when and why it is the right call to take a step back and refactor old code versus putting together a quick fix.     
  • Develop and maintain key internal and public-facing back end systems
  • Design redundant and scalable architectures for high performance web and mobile delivery
  • Engineer simple and elegant solutions to challenging problems
  • Design and engineer secure RESTful APIs
  • Promote best practices in coding and architecture
  • Collaborate with and mentor other members of engineering team through code reviews and paired programming
  • Estimate and track projects using Agile methodologies
  • 7+ years of experience in Node.js
  • 4+ years of experience in Python2/3
  • 4+ years of experience in database experience in MongoDb.
  • 4+ years of experience in unit testing and continuous delivery.
  • 3+ years experience in modeling and querying relational databases (ex: mysql, postgres)
  • Strong knowledge of continuous delivery.
  • Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services    
  • Strong knowledge of software fundamentals design/architectural patterns. Experience with MVC frameworks
  • Experience working on a team with multiple developers
  • Experience building CMS and reporting systems
  • Experience configuring web servers running under Linux
  • Experience using a content delivery network (CDN) like Akamai or Cloudfront
  • Git source code management experience
  • Experience developing with third party APIs
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Good knowledge of HTML/CSS
  • Good knowledge of authentication, encryption and security techniques
  • Knowledge of basic system administration and shell scripting
  • Knowledge of front end technologies (Javascript, CSS 2/3, HTML 5, etc.)
  • Knowledge in PCI and COPPA compliance  
  • Prior experience in a startup environment

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