Typescript BackendArchitect

Job Title:
Typescript Backend Architect

Location:
Greenwood Village, CO (Onsite)

Local profile only, F2F Client Interview

Charter is looking for a Typescript backend Architect to work in a small, agile team. The team creates REST and event-driven microservices that focus on using caching and reporting to improve our customers experience. The team works at scaling, handling many millions of REST and Kafka events each day.

Engineers on this team create new microservices and improve existing microservices. Projects are usually of considerable complexity and require a mastery of development tools. Engineers are expected to design and implement scalable, dependable systems as needed. As this is a small team, engineers must be self-starters, capable of handling responsibility and making decisions.

• Strong experience with Node.js and Typescript
• Understanding of Dynamo
  
  DB or other key-value stores and No
  
  SQL databases
• Experience using AWS managed services
• Experience with caching architectures, particularly Redis
• Experience with messaging, especially Kafka MSK
• Strong experience with containerization and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, Argo, etc.)
• Experience with monitoring technologies (Splunk, Instana, Datadog, Prometheus, etc.)
• Knowledge of API documentation, especially Swagger (OpenAPI)
• Experience using CI/CD automation (Jenkins, Git Lab)