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Backend Engineer (Permanent Work from Home)

Date Posted: 27-05-2022
Level: Senior Level

The Backend Engineer will be mainly responsible for the continuous review and improvement of the existing codebase and engineering processes. This role will work very closely with the onshore team in the US in order to assess and deliver solutions in an efficient manner.

Responsibilities

  • Working with product manager, designers, other engineers, and lead engineer to assess and deliver solution to solve common problem.
  • Work with other engineers to continuously review and improve existing codebase and engineering process.
  • Mentor to junior to mid-level BE.
  • Participate and contribute in technical direction meeting.
  • Will be working closely with other engineers in day to day.

Qualifications

Aptitude

  • Proactive and resourceful when working on new project
  • Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Being thoughtful and analytical when proposing solution or investigating issue.
    Focus on evidence and facts.
  • Strong self-learner: love to learn new technology and keeping skills up to date.
  • Thrive in ever-changing environments (optional)

Technical Skills

  • Strong fundamental GoLang experience and containerisation technology (docker, kubernetes)
  • Experience in building and designing test automation
    • Integration tests
    • E2E tests
    • Performance testing
    • unit test (TDD)
  • Experience in infrastructure as code (Terraform or Cloudformation)
  • Experience in good documentation habits and best practices
  • Experience in building RESTful APIs
  • Experience in building efficient data retrieval queries from various databases
    • Have used multiple database system: relational (MySql/Postgres) and nosql (DynamoDB, MongoDB)
  • Experience working with AWS services (AWS EKS is important)
  • Experience in agile development processes
  • Focus on writing readable, efficient, and performant code
  • Experience in building complex applications that are:
    • easy to maintain (ease of maintenance)
    • high in availability
    • high in scalability
    • cost effective in terms of deployment
  • Experience in building and maintaining CICD pipelines
  • Experience in a microservice style architecture
  • Experience and have used on a practical level on coding design patterns
    • Have heard of the book made by the gang of 4 and applied some patterns on real world solutions
  • Experience in leading a project and has developed it from start to finish
    • Starting a project
    • Doing the necessary spikes
    • Documenting the design process
    • Notifying stakeholders
    • Implementing the work
    • Releasing to production
  • Experience working with other engineers and non-technical stakeholder to propose and deliver solution
    • Open minded
    • Easy to talk to
    • Know when to concede and accept feedback
  • Experience in aiding the development of other fellow team members
    • Likes to provide positive feedback and delivers them in a good way
    • Likes to promote spreading knowledge so anyone can work on a particular feature/project

 

This role will be for a permanent work from home setup with the office located in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City. The work schedule is from Monday to Friday, morning shift (Manila) following the Australian Timezone

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