Position: Senior FullStack JavaScript Engineer (NodeJS/React)
Company: UKEESS Software House
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Team of UKEESS Software House is currently looking for a Senior FullStack JavaScript Engineer (NodeJS/React)  to join our team for the full-time position (either onsite in Lviv or remotely in Ukraine).

UKEESS Software House is looking for a Senior FullStack JavaScript Engineer (NodeJS/React) that’s an expert in building high-performance web applications and microservices, familiar with advanced practices in building scalable websites. This engineer will be a member of a team that finds and addresses issues across the entire product and will establish and document best practices and collaborate in the development of new capabilities and practices that improve the user experience for users on slow connections worldwide.

**About our Customer and project.**

Our customer is the world’s largest family history and consumer genetics company.

With more than 30+ billion digitized global historical records, 100 million family trees, and 18 million people in a growing DNA database, our client helps customers discover their family stories and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join us!

**In this role, you will also have the opportunity:**

- To partake in the design, architecture, and development of advanced software solutions, and provide high levels of system support for internal systems, e.g. that support the visualization and analysis of multi-dimensional data that represents the responsiveness of our products.
- Will adhere to the organization’s software solutions while following industry best practices surrounding AGILE methodologies.
- Will be able to interpret and articulate business needs and demonstrate competency in providing business solutions.

**What you’ll be doing in the role:**

- Assess, analyze and identify opportunities to improve the performance of customer-facing web pages. This will include becoming well versed in the flows and uses of the product, in order to understand the impact of performance on key flows, with the ability to then articulate business impact.
- Engage with teams to address issues, implement best practices, and improve the performance of the site. This involves the development and submission of change requests and mentoring teams in best practices.
- As a mentor must be highly competent and confident in order to develop reports and respect in mentoring and training technical leads in teams across the organization.
- Design, build, enhance and maintain internal tools using industry-standard technologies
- Work on AWS technologies such as ECS, Fargate, etc.
- Work with Docker, Jenkins, and CDN technologies.
- Write code that follows standards and best practices, especially around performance, stability, and testability
- Work in a collaborative agile environment (SCRUM)
- Investigate and resolve customer issues in a timely manner

**Must-have skills & experiences:**

- Recent and proficient experience with building RESTful services in a microservices environment
- 4+ years experience with NodeJS and React
- Hands-on experience with JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5
- Proven experience building scalable websites
- Experience deploying applications in a cloud environment (AWS or Azure)
- Strong understanding of data structures and design patterns
- Understanding of CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment)
- Strong command-line experience using remote access Linux
- Knowledge of web protocols
- English: Upper-Intermediate level at least

**It will be nice to have:**

- Experience working within an Agile development environment
- Experience with JMeter or similar tools
- BS degree in the relevant area or equivalent working experience

Don’t meet every single requirement? That’s ok! If you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be the right candidate for this role!