Position: Senior Backend Engineer
Company: Grid Dynamics
Category: Node.js
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

This engineer will have Tech Lead experience or ability, and will work in an agile environment with onshore and offshore teammates on building cloud-native services using Typescript and NodeJS on AWS Serverless technologies (AWS Lambda, etc).

Responsibilities:

- Participate in the design and development of web application from requirements analysis to production.
- Constantly improve software quality (evaluate and incorporate new libraries, tools, and technologies; code reviews; refactoring; testing; etc.)
- Analyze and improve application performance
- Search for simple and robust solutions to complex tasks
- Act as a back end tech lead for a team of onshore and offshore engineering teammates
- Work in an Agile methodology environment where innovation, teamwork, and creativity are the key to success

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science/ Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- Experience as a tech lead on an agile development team
- Have 5+ years of experience writing and deploying production code
- Strong ability to abstract complex problems to their essential components and design and implement elegant solutions for them
- Robust OO Programming and OO Design concepts knowledge
- Strong knowledge of either Java, Typescript (NodeJS), Python, or equivalent language used for microservices development
- Experience of Cloud technologies on the AWS platform with a project for 12+ months is required
- Strong unit/integration testing experience
- Delivery Focused using Agile Development Methodology (Scrum/Kanban)
- Need to be a team player while having the capacity to work independently
- Strong analytical and logical skills including troubleshooting
- Good interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written
- Good English both verbal and written skills are a must

Would be a plus:

- AWS Lambda experience
- AWS Developer Certified

What we offer:

- Opportunity to work on bleeding-edge projects
- Work with a highly motivated and dedicated team
- Competitive salary
- Flexible schedule
- Benefits package - medical insurance, sports 
- Corporate social events
- Professional development opportunities
- Well-equipped office 

NB:

Placement and Staffing Agencies need not apply.  We do not work with C2C at this time.

At this moment, we are not able to process H1B transfers. Applicants with CPT and OPT visas are welcome to apply.