Backend Software Developer

Salt are recruiting on behalf of our Client which are recognized on a Global level in the Tech industry. Rapidly expanding our client is ready to hire Java Developers with immediate effect to join the team! Great company to work for due to the fun, happy & politics- free work culture they have created through their outstanding principles.

Working as a Backend Engineer, you’ll be part of the development of core platform systems that expose data for desktop and mobile applications. We’re looking for JavaScript Backend Engineers with an appetite for solving complex and interesting problems to world-class standards.

Key Skills we are looking for:

* Vanilla JavaScript and/or TypeScript on the backend (Node.js, Heroku, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda, etc.);

* Developing performant, resilient and secure services/functions;

* Building and handling asynchronous and event-driven workflows;

* Protocols and architectural patterns like HTTP, REST and/or GraphQL;

* Creating testable code and making testing a priority; * Being passionate, self-driven and working with little supervision towards a common team or company purpose.

Advantage if you have experience in:

* Have experience working with SQL and NoSQL data stores;

* Know about service-oriented architectures, design patterns and data structures;

* Are used to working with code versioning tools like Git in a continuous delivery process;

* Use code quality tools like linters, type checkers and static analysers;

* Have experience using cloud platforms like AWS, GCP or Azure;

* Care about all the steps your code goes through from your machine to production and know about or are curious of technologies like containers;

* Are comfortable with agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban