Software Engineer – API, NodeJS, Javascript

Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
• Performs analysis on failures, proposes design changes, and encourages operational improvements
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and applies changes to meet standards
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Three to five years of relevant experience
• Strong experience developing in NodeJS or similar
• Proficient with a modern front-end framework such as Ember or React
• Strong skills in ETL pipelines, data warehousing, real-time streaming, and big data frameworks (ex Spark)
• Architecting and implementing high performing software applications
• Strong understanding with SQL and relational database modelling
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/Cloud bees) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Experience with cloud service providers like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Adherent to agile software development lifecycle and Dev Ops principles
• Ability to create and maintain technical documentation for infrastructure, APIs and components
• Able to mentor and coach engineers of all skill levels