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Senior Node.js Developer
Insightful 8 months ago
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location: remotework from anywhere
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Senior Node.js Developer

  • Worldwide
  • Remote OK
  • Full-Time
  • Development

About us

Insightful is a market-leading platform for employee productivity and workforce analytics. We process really big data, synthesize it into actionable insights and ultimately provide a best-in-class/easy-to use product which empower enterprise customers to improve employee productivity, business processes and overall staff well-being.

Job Description

We are looking for experienced engineers to join us in building our microservices. We are valuing quality over quantity and since we are processing a huge amount of data, challenges are performance oriented.

Our codebase was written from scratch in 2019 and our stack includes: Node.js written in TypeScript, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis on top of Kubernetes(GKE).

Responsibilities:

  • Work as BE member in a cross-functional team and collaborating with other technology roles
  • Writing high-performance, scalable, testable and reusable code
  • Optimization of applications for maximum speed and scalability
  • Maintenance and improvement of existing libraries and modules
  • Develop the best practices for our code base
  • Choose the most effective tools for everyday routines

Requirements:

  • 6+ years of programming experience
  • Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript
  • 3+ years of experience with Node.js
  • Strong fundamentals in software design
  • Understanding of the nature of asynchronous programming
  • Understanding of server side development
  • Experience with databases (preferably NoSQL)
  • Fluency in English

These are minimum requirements, and candidates not meeting them would not be considered.

Experience with the following will be considered a big plus:

  • Technologies like ElasticSearch, MongoDB or Kafka
  • Microservices and distributed software development
  • WebSockets (SocketIO)
  • Test driven development
  • Familiarity with front-end technologies including Angular, HTML, and CSS