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BACKEND DEVELOPER

  • Cape Town Remote
  • Salary: R70 833.00 - R82 500.00 Per Month
  • Job Type: Permanent
  • Sectors: IT Consulting Technical
  • Reference: SWING BACKEND

Apply before Mar 21 2021 | 18 Days left

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Vacancy Details

Employer: Swing Development SA

 

Purpose of the role:

Swing’s Backend devs are creative, analytical, driven and energetic in pursuit of designing and building scalable applications with focus on functionality, security and reliability of the tech stack 

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • You'll be architecting and implementing backends and their interactions with various data stores and other APIs to enable cutting-edge SV startups to do what they do best.
  • You'll be deploying your software using industry standard tooling like Kubernetes clusters, Lambda functions.
  • You'll be expected to care deeply about security in everything you do and to constantly raise the baseline of how we defend our user's data against external threats and themselves. Your implementation will not end with your code, but with a container running in an environment.
  • You'll be implementing robust automated test suites to ensure high quality and low failure rate of delivered code.
  • You'll be working DevOps style to make sure Defence-in-Depth principles are followed and containers are as secure as humanly possible.
  • You will have huge creative freedom and ability to influence the project, so you will take ownership and responsibility for what you do.
  • Build relationships with Swing Dev developers in Poland,San Francisco, Cape Town and Brazil. 
  • Design and develop new back-end services
  • Focus on coding and debugging
  • Build clean and structured code and libraries
  • Research new tech that will benefit the team, project or client
  • Integrate user facing elements developed
  • Communicate effectively with the team locally and internationally
  • Provide insight and contribute to software design and architecture 

Benefits: 

  • Working with US-based startups and Fortune 500 clients on demanding but at the same time rewarding projects,
  • Non-corporate work environment
  • Experienced PM and QA support
  • Regular code reviews policy
  • The chance to develop your programming skills as well as learn a lot about how tech business id done in the US
  • International links with teams in 4 continents

 

 


Required Skills

  • javascript : 7 to 8 years
  • mongodb
  • node.js : 2 to 3 years
  • typescript : 2 to 3 years
  • postgresql : 1 to 2 years
  • nest.js : 1 to 2 years

Candidate Requirements

 

Requirements and Experience:

  • Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT 
  • At least 7 years working experience as a Backend developer
  • Must have working knowledge of Node.js preferably with Nest.js and Typescript
  • Expertise in at least one backend technology e.g. Java/.NET
  • Good practical knowledge of at least one database system, e.g. PostgreSQL/MongoDB,
  • Experience in creating well-designed APIs,
  • Experience in utilising good security practices,
  • Readiness to learn and expand your skill set as required by ongoing projects 

You will get extra points for: 

  • Hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript
  • Proficiency in PostgreSQL or MongoDB
  • Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes/AWS deployment processes
  • Experience in creating projects from scratch
  • Experience with profiling and performance optimisation
  • Experience in giving high quality feedback during code review
  • Knowledge of testing JavaScript code (Jest/Mocha/Chai/CodeceptJS)
  • Automated software testing on unit/integration/end-to-end levels

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