Back End Developer (Typescript)

We are looking for a Back End Developer, with strong experience working with Typescript, based in Latin America to work on a long-term project for one of our clients, a Fintech company based in Los Angeles, California.

Our client is on a mission to build products that level the financial playing field. Their banking app helps millions of members bank, budget, find work, build credit, and access up to $500 advances without paying a fee.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the backend code to support transactional and account data intelligence.
• Participate in the design and development of APIs that will interface with Data Science Machine Learning Models, as well as internal and external services.
• Contribute to discussions during the feature design process, ensuring that risk considerations are integrated from the ground up.
• Delivers consistent high-quality code by shipping incrementally across multiple PRs.
• Eliminates potential for customer-impacting errors (outages) in the systems their squad owns by contributing to writing better tests and by performing effective code reviews.
• Write unit and integration tests to promote squad-owned quality.
• Spot and eliminate performance concerns in new and existing code.
• Effectively delivers and addresses code review feedback.
• Follow triage runbook procedures, and participate in on-call rotation every other week to maintain proper system uptime based on triggered monitors and alerts set up in the team.
• Ability to raise issues found during triage, and work with team members to follow through on needed actions to fix root cause.
• Demonstrates empathy in communication and adjusts the granularity of information to fit the audience.
• Clearly understands the trade-offs in solutions and roadmap prioritization. If needed, proactively seeks clarity on the trade-offs and priorities.

Requirements

• Advanced Level of English.
• 4+ years of experience in software development.
• 4+ years of experience working with Typescript on the back end (Runs on Node.js).
• 3+ years of experience working with MySQL, Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience programming in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including but not limited to JavaScript, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
• Strong CS fundamentals and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to work as part of a team.
• The ability to discuss and explain system architecture and component design.
• Experience working in a microservice architecture.

Bonus Points

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering or related fields.
• Experience working in the FinTech field.

What we offer

• Long term positions
• Compensation in USD
• Paid time off
• Cool clients and products
• Work with great engineers

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