Posted almost 4 years ago

This is a three-month contract starting ASAP.

We’re looking for a Backend Javascript Developer to help us get one of our projects over the line. The project is a BigCommerce build with a number of microservices and functions hosted in Azure. You’ll spend your time working closely with the Technical Lead and Project Team to deliver these microservices and functions to integrate with the third-party and internal systems belonging to the customer.

A Typical Day

You start your day in a team Stand Up discussing progress you made yesterday, listening to your team members describe their current issues and dropping some knowledge bombs on how you “solved this last time”. You’re working from home today, so you pay the pet tax and encourage your four-legged-friend wave to the camera before logging off.

First up you’ve got a pair-programming session with a Junior Developer in your team to help them through a tough ERP integration that they’ve been working on. They’ve been steadily improving under your experienced wing and are turning into a really productive team member.

After lunch you’ll set your Slack status and turn on Do Not Disturb for a couple of hours while you debug a weird issue with a customer’s site. There’s been a change to the out of stock logic recently to support multiple warehouses. You update your unit test suite to cover this unexpected scenario and tell the Project Manager the good news! You push your feature branch to Bitbucket and watch Bitbucket Pipelines build your artifact and prove that your tests pass.

Your JIRA issue has automatically transitioned to “In Code Review” and you open your pull request, studying your diff carefully before assigning it to your team mate for a sanity check.

Tomorrow (assuming all is well!) you’ll merge your pull request into a release branch and let Pipelines deploy it to Staging where it will be regression tested by the QA Team and their bank of automated tests. It should be out to Production by the end of the week, providing we can get through the testing and get client sign off by 2pm on Thursday.

If you read this and it sounds like your ideal job — we want you on the team!You start your day in a team Stand Up discussing progress you made yesterday, listening to your team members describe their current issues and dropping some knowledge bombs on how you “solved this last time”. You’re working from home today, so you pay the pet tax and encourage your four-legged-friend wave to the camera before logging off.

First up you’ve got a pair-programming session with a Junior Developer in your team to help them through a tough ERP integration that they’ve been working on. They’ve been steadily improving under your experienced wing and are turning into a really productive team member.

After lunch you’ll set your Slack status and turn on Do Not Disturb for a couple of hours while you debug a weird issue with a customer’s site. There’s been a change to the out of stock logic recently to support multiple warehouses. You update your unit test suite to cover this unexpected scenario and tell the Project Manager the good news! You push your feature branch to Bitbucket and watch Bitbucket Pipelines build your artifact and prove that your tests pass.

Your JIRA issue has automatically transitioned to “In Code Review” and you open your pull request, studying your diff carefully before assigning it to your team mate for a sanity check.

Tomorrow (assuming all is well!) you’ll merge your pull request into a release branch and let Pipelines deploy it to Staging where it will be regression tested by the QA Team and their bank of automated tests. It should be out to Production by the end of the week, providing we can get through the testing and get client sign off by 2pm on Thursday.

If you read this and it sounds like your ideal job — we want you on the team!

Essential Technical Skills


* Server-side JavaScript

* Experience with FaaS platforms

* Experience with one or more  popular Node framework (e.g. Nest, Koa, Express, Hapi)

* Experience integrating with NoSQL data stores (e.g. Cosmo, Mongo, Firestore, Dynamo)

* Working with third-party REST and GraphQL APIs

* Experience unit testing with Javascript

* Experience of the full software lifecycle

* Experience with Agile methodologies

* Advanced experience working with Git

* Advanced knowledge of the HTTP and H2  protocols

* Advanced knowledge of web application security




Essential Knowledge / Experience


* At least 2 years of development experience working in a development team within a commercial environment

* Experience dealing directly with non-technical stakeholders

* Highly motivated with demonstrable technical and analytical skills

* Desire to further technical skills and knowledge

* Attention to detail, commitment and desire to complete a consistently high standard of work

* Advanced time management skills with the ability to manage own tasks to agreed timelines with limited supervision

* Able to clearly communicate complex design and development decisions

* Advanced knowledge of best practice and architecture for complex web applications

* Advanced knowledge of and able to avoid common security issues in web applications

* Able to articulate complex technical solutions with minimal assistance

* Able to design and build complex technical solutions with minimal assistance

* Strong communication skills


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