Node.Js Developer

About the Job

We are looking for a Node.Js Developer to be responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities

• Developing applications using Node.Js 
• Creating database schema that represent and support business processes
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Handle multiple projects and competing deadlines
• Build and maintain code repository/organized release schedule
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Assist in scoping and provide support to ensure the successful of deliveries and projects
• Provide technical expertise to support peer developers, quality team and customer service team

Core Skills:

Coding - Handles coding responsibilities including the ability to:

• Understand code at their level independently
• Properly document code
• Follow coding standards
• Engineer sections of code independently and subsystems with guidance
• Create tools to be used by the team
• Refactor code at a sub-system level

Ownership -Takes accountability and ownership for work:

• Being responsible for understanding work before commencing
• Following through on a task to completion
• Handling responsibility beyond the explicit for his/her own tasks, bugs, and designs
• Being proactive in addressing unforeseen issues

Technical Design - Designs/develops effective technical designs that:

• Are written to the level of expectation of code responsibility
• Accurately estimate times for his/her tasks
• Include resource maps and optimization plans on a sub-system level
• Assess risks for tasks on a system level
• Identify missing aspect of a design, particularly at the sub-system level
• Identify missing aspects of someone else’s design
• Apply techniques of object oriented design and meta-programming
• Anticipate problems in their own area of code
• Include the interface design with some guidance
• Take into account methods of automatic testing
• Identify the need for tools ahead of time

Debugging - Fully debugs familiar and unfamiliar areas of his/her own code, other’s code (of similar level), and higher-level code (with limited guidance).

• Debugging responsibilities include:
• More consistent use of exception handlers to track down problems
• Basic understanding working with and debugging assembly
• Use of profiling as a standard step

Time Management - Looks for ways to save time, including:

• Multitasking
• Helping the broader team identify high risk tasks so they can be scheduled early
• Effectively prioritizing tasks