Sr Backend Engineer

Virtasant is a leading cloud consulting services provider. We heavily focus on lift & shift, cloud-native development, cloud cost optimization, and migration services. As a consulting company, we often are faced with the challenge to create an engineering team in a matter of a week or two. To do that, we have created a secondary support business that runs an engineering talent network and provides staffing services.

Our client combines the latest IoT tracking devices with cutting-edge software technologies to manage workflows and track equipment. They are creating an intuitive, cloud-based application to improve businesses' ability to schedule, maintain, and deploy complex equipment configurations. 

The position

We're looking for an experienced Staff Backend Engineer to join our team. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role in building the technical foundation and implementing cutting-edge software technologies that transform existing processes into digital workflows. You will be responsible for designing and building cloud-based applications to improve businesses’ ability to schedule, maintain, and deploy complex equipment configurations. As the team’s technical lead you will help distill technical ideas into an action engineering roadmap. You will act as a mentor and coach for your team. You must have deep experience with microservice architectures, building highly performant, and well tested code. Your expertise will help us create an intuitive application where customers can digitally interact with their physical equipment while collecting data, deriving insights, and improving the efficiency of operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop high quality software

• Responsible for building out backend technical foundation

• Provide technical advice and decision making around architecture

• Research and implement new technologies

• Build go to market plans for service architecture

• Cross functional collaboration with engineering, product, and design teams

• Develop testing and performance plans for Backend team

• Assist team in Scrum activities

• Lead the development of the Backend team processes

Skills and Qualifications

• Expertise developing microservices with NodeJS

• In-depth experience working with Typescript/Javascript

• Experience working with AWS tools and technologies (Lambda, API Gateway, Cloudwatch, etc…)

• Ability to solve problems and work independently

• Experience working with 3rd party libraries

• Expert experience working with CI/CD pipelines (Specifically CircleCI)

• In-depth knowledge of Relational Databases(MySQL or Postgres)

• In-depth knowledge of NoSql Databases (DynamoDb or other applicable)

• Experience with alerting and monitoring tools

• Expert knowledge of Terraform Or CDK.

• Experience work in Agile Scrum teams

• BS in Computer Science or related work experience

Our recruitment process

• Recruiter Screen

• Technical interview (30 min)

• Two Technical Interviews with the client  (one with the VP of Engineering and one with one of the leads): (1hr each)

• Two Collaboration interviews with the client (with design and product): (45 mins each)

What we offer

• Totally remote, full-time (40h/week)

• Monday to Friday, Between PST and BST (9am-6pm, from US Pacific Time to British Time)

• PTO for local holidays based on the country of residence plus two calendar weeks (10 workdays)

• Long-term, no end date independent contractor agreement

• Payment in USD, by-weekly or monthly - your choice