Backend Engineer (NodeJS)

Full Time

Bright Creations -
Smart Village, Gizaposted 2 years ago

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Project

The project is a new FinTech startup focused on building leading edge infrastructure supporting consumer and business payments globally. Our goal is to be the number one FinTech infrastructure player in our niche in the Middle East & Africa. Obviously, there’s more to it than that, but we’re still in stealth mode so you’ll know once we’ve launched (or if you join the team!)

About the Role

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer with experience in payments or fintech and has a passion for writing working, clean and maintainable backend code using NodeJS and Express (part of the MERN stack). You’ll be joining a small core team of cross-functional engineers working directly with our founder who has designed and built over 150 web and mobile apps. You’ll be working in a squad to deliver the core FinTech product as well as new and exciting features for the application in a fast-paced demanding environment.

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Office is based in Smart Village, and we have certain flexibility for remote work.

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Job Responsibilities

Design, build, test and deliver backend applications using NodeJS which will lead the digital payments space in Egypt and the Middle East
Coding using TypeScript primarily with a bit of JavaScript
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features
Write clean, beautifully architected, reusable and maintainable NodeJS code using robust software architectural patterns
Develop back-end REST API services which are exposed to secure and unsecure connections
Develop caching mechanisms for the data to ensure speed and concurrency
Write unit tests for all code developed before pushing to code repository and covers all cases
Ensuring consistent code and best practices shared between our JS developers
Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
Continuously discover, evaluate and implement new libraries to maximize development efficiency
Maintain and update DevOps procedure for the backed continuously delivery and integration using Gitlab

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Engineering Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science
4+ years’ experience developing back-end applications
Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle
Excellent understanding of software design patterns and how to write clean code
Excellent knowledge and proficient in NodeJS and ExpressJS.
Excellent knowledge and proficient in JavaScript and TypeScript
Excellent knowledge and proficient in database configurations and migrations on MongoDB and MySQL/MariaDB
Familiarity with Test Driven Development (TDD)
Excellent understanding of writing code which fails softly and accommodates for proper error handling and logging mechanisms
Experience working with RESTful APIs to connect frontend applications to back-end services as well as other third-party services
Experience of source control system using GIT
Familiarity with continuous integration, Gitlab CI and YAML is a plus
Aware and able to quickly find the right libraries and frameworks to achieve tasks quickly and easily without re-inventing the wheel

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