Senior Platform Engineer (contract-to-hire)

As a Platform Engineer, you will:

– Play a critical role in designing, implementing and maintaining foundational services, APIs, and tools that enable our engineering teams to deliver high-quality software efficiently.

– Build and maintain scalable, production-ready systems such as shared email, notification, and an Identity and Access Management (IAM) system.

– Collaborate with engineers across teams to identify opportunities for automation, improved developer tooling, and shared infrastructure.

– Ensure the scalability, security, and reliability of platform-level services through best practices in architecture, design, and testing.

– Developing structured and backward compatible API’s and versioning of API systems

– Drive the adoption of DevOps principles, contributing to CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and infrastructure as code to streamline deployment and improve operational excellence.

Qualifications

– Proficiency in Node.js for building scalable, production-ready APIs and services

– Working knowledge of databases and SQL

– 8-10 years Experience as a Full Stack or Back End Developer

– Proficiency with Git and GitHub workflows

– Proficiency with the AWS platform including Cognito and API Gateway

– Experience writing unit tests

Desired Skills and Qualifications:

● Bachelor of science degree (or equivalent) in computer science, engineering, or

similar experience

● Python

● Experience writing Functional Tests

Industry

● Technology, Information and Internet

Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.