Software Engineer, Backend

We are looking for an experienced?Software Engineer?to help lead the development of fast, well-tested, and performant code for our web applications and modernizing our application stack. If you are the kind of engineer passionate about developing well-built, reusable components following industry best practices, and love working in a collaborative environment with your product partners and dependency teams, then we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to build and maintain the user experience, accessibility, and development feasibility of the website, applications, and supporting digital spaces.
• Design and implement innovative solutions for the presentation of data and content on our websites, mobile apps, and other platforms.
• Adhere to JoVE?s brand standards and convey it cohesively across the website, supporting digital spaces and third-party platforms.
• Stay updated on the latest standards, changes, and web design and development trends.
• Contribute towards engineering excellence in areas like automated unit testing.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders on project design and implementation and other developers to maintain standards and create a reusable codebase
• Expected to be self-motivated, needing little guidance on completing tasks on time and meeting expectations in terms of requirements
• Explain and ?whiteboard? complex technical issues to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation.
• Assist in automating deployments to development and other environments.

Requirements

• A Bachelor?s degree
• 5+ years?of experience building scalable, data-driven backend systems and APIs.
• Strong proficiency inserver-side programming?(Node.js,). Familiarity withPHP?is an added advantage.
• Strong understanding ofsystem design,data architecture, andmicroservicesormodular monoliths.
• Skilled in designing and implementingRESTful APIsand integrating withthird-party servicesandexternal SDKs.
• Familiarity withevent-driven systems,asynchronous processing, andmessage queues?(Kafka, SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.).
• Experienced withSQL and NoSQL databases?? e.g.,PostgreSQL,?MongoDB,?Redis,? with the ability to optimize queries and model complex data relationships.
• Solid experience withcloud-native architectureusingAWS?(serverless, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, etc.) or equivalent platforms.
• Demonstrated understanding and implementation of software design principles such as?SOLID and DRY with Software as a Service (SaaS), multi-tenancy application development
• Embraces the concepts ofAgile Scrumsoftware development and its related collaboration and issue-tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Rally)
• Experience working in aContinuous Integration / Continuous Delivery?(CICD) model, including GitHub and CI pipeline automation tools
• Ability totriage and resolve?incidents and lead incident investigations.

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package.
• You will make a direct impact in accelerating science research and education.
• Opportunity to work with global teams and in an environment that promotes innovation and collaboration.
• Our strong promotion from within culture draws a clear path to advance your career with us.

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