Sr. Backend Node.js Engineer; U.S remote CST OR EST time zone

Sr. Backend Node.js Engineer (U.S remote within CST OR EST time zone)

• Full-time

We've recently partnered with a US-based Global Marketing agency to seek a US-based Remote Senior Backend Engineer to develop and maintain large-scale Node.js microservices functional infrastructure, all running on Amazon Web Services.

Our client is one of the leaders in their space offering a great combination of competitive salary, and benefits.

Preferred location to be closer to the office within Dallas, Chicago, NY and or Virginia/Reston but this is a 100% remote role.

• Be instrumental in developing digital experiences using cutting-edge technology by leveraging your Node.js software development experience.
• Be a key part of an application development project team comprised of onshore and offshore developers using Scrum ceremonies and methodologies.
• Develop testable, reusable, and efficient code in Node.js for highly visible marketing and eCommerce Websites.
• Ensure timely completion of your coding assignments and deliverables, as well as provide system-level documentation. Collaborate with Technical Managers to estimate specific work assignments, ensure the quality of your deliverables and provide status updates, and highlight issues.
• Participate in all Scrum processes, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, and Sprint Retrospectives.

• 4+ years of experience building websites, APIs, or microservices.
• Creativity and experience developing best-in-class software applications in Node.js using ECMAScript (ES) modules, NPM and Serverless Framework.
• Experience writing Node.js code that interacts with SQL or No
  
  SQL databases.
• Worked in Cloud Web Services such as AWS Lambda, S3, Dynamo
  
  DB.
• Hold strong notions of security best practices (e.g. using IAM Roles, Policies, KMS, etc.).
• Knowledgeable of working with git and shells in a terminal on daily basis.
• Skilled at setting your local development environment tooling and deploying code to a remote server environment.
• Good to have:
  • Built RESTful services and troubleshot them to HTTP protocol level.
  • Experience in Cloud Web Services such as AWS API Gateway, Cognito, Secret Manager, RDS, EC2, ECS, Fargate, SQS, or similar.
  • Used Node.js with Typescript.
  • Developed Lambda functions in Python.
  • An understanding of Continuous Integration technologies and deployment frameworks (i.e. Node Package Manager, Docker, Jenkins).