Position: Back-end (Node.js) developer
Company: Recruit-Alliance
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate

Our client is a Swiss FinTech startup founded in 2016. Company’s mission is to automate the entire value chain for Actively Managed Certificates (AMCs) - a family of financial products that is very similar in character to investment funds. Vestr digitizes the life-cycle management, trade execution and reporting for these products. The product’s core engine relies on an event-driven, service-oriented Node.js framework written in TypeScript.

End clients, which include one of Europe’s largest private banks, can choose between a managed service, entirely hosted in Switzerland, and an on-premises solution.
While headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, clients are accustomed to working in distributed teams. To expand the international scrum team, we are currently looking for an experienced Back-End TypeScript developer.

Become part of our experienced and highly skilled scrum team
Help develop and extend our CQRS-driven, service-oriented backend
Design decoupled, fail-safe workflows to carry out complex tasks such as portfolio rebalancing, corporate actions and trade executions
Explore and implement quantitative tasks such as time series analysis
Extend our event sourcing framework to produce perfect audit trails for our customers.

Skills and responsibilities

Advanced understanding of Javascript including ES6 and ES20xx, async/await, generators/iterators, advanced data structures, etc. Preferably, solid understanding of TypeScript.
Solid experience in Node.js development. Preferably, relevant experience with TypeScript in conjunction with Node.js, Express, and Apollo.
Extensive experience in design and implementation of distributed architectures, solid experience with RESTful APIs, RPCs, and message brokering
Working knowledge of building GraphQL service layers
Working knowledge of RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Docker, and Kubernetes
Conceptual knowledge of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Micro-Services Architectures, SOA, and more.
Conceptual knowledge of design patterns in OOP and functional programming paradigms
Experience with other back-end technologies like Java or .NET is a plus
Good English skills (oral and written)
Clear and reliable communication
Enjoys working in a team.