Sr Software Engineer

About the role The Senior Backend Engineer will be a core member of the tech team to help enhance and ex- tend the implementation of the current tech stack. You will be actively involved with full-stack development, database management, and aiding mobile app development. You’ll work closely with our technical leadership, and help drive our product velocity, building out our product infrastructure. We work in an agile model framework so you will be required to pick up things quickly, solve problems, bugs, and assist other team members if required. Responsibilities ● Design and build backend services that power our native mobile applications on iOS and Android to leverage baraka’s platform and capabilities ● Develop reference scripts and demo apps against our REST API using tools like Postman and Swaggerhub ● You will develop and release new features for our platform using NestJS, Postgres, and AWS ● You will work with your peers to improve our tools and processes for how we integrate and deploy code (CI/CD) ● You will help us to refactor legacy APIs and sub-systems as we move towards a microservices architecture ● Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic ● Manage, reboot, and monitor the database systems ● Fully own and independently drive backend engineering efforts Qualifications ● BS or Masters in Computer & Communication Engineer, IT, Computer Science or related technical field ● At least 3 to 5 years of background and experience with full-stack development, database management, and API development ● At least 3 to 5 years of background and working knowledge with software and product building ● Development experience in the framework of Angular.js, NestJS, and NodeJS ● Website development and/or operations experience, especially with PHP, WordPress, Apache, and Laravel. ● You have experience designing, building, and maintaining REST APIs for use in the production ● Database management experience with Postgresql and Redis ● Have experience in designing, deploying, and monitoring a highly scalable environment ● CI/CD pipeline development experience (Azure DevOps or others) ● Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.