Senior Backend Engineer - Typescript, Node.JS, AWS (10-12 Years)

Job Description

Key skills:
 Need a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (strictly backend and no frontend work)
 10+ yrs of relevant experience in the industry
 Description of professional knowledge expected from the engineers:
 Proficiency with coding in:
 Typescript / Node.js (PHP with NodeJS would be a great combination)
 Mac OS, VS Code, GIT, Serverless framework
 Proficiency with AWS services (API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, SQS, EventBridge)
 Proficiency in building RESTful services and API and follows best coding practices
 Experience with databases (Oracle/MySQL/PostgresDB/RDS & DynamoDB)  strong working experience in either of SQL or NoSQL DB but theoretical knowledge of both.
 Experience building scalable and resilient cloud services
 Experience working with observability tools like Datadog
 Ability to work independently on projects with little supervision.
 Should have experience in making technical decisions in high volume apps (100k+ users)
 Experience working with distributed team. Overlap of 2h time twice a week with the core team in US time zones (Pacific + Central)
 Strong communication skills (verbal and written)

Bonus skills:
 PHP (very useful)
 AWS service - Step Functions
 Golang (low priority)

Project work
 Old code is running on PHP with EC2 (being moved to ECS). The new code is on NodeJS using Lambdas and Step Functions.,