Position: Backend Engineer
Company: TurnKey Labs
Category: Node.js
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

About the Client

Nowsta (www.nowsta.com) is a well funded company with a mission is to organize and empower the part-time and hourly teams of the world. At the moment, we’re focused on shift & gig-based work. For employers, organizing and retaining these workforces is challenging. For employees, disparate work schedules and unsteady finances are all too common. We’re building a platform that improves the lives of employers and employees alike.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our development team. This hands on role will require strong technical skills, the ability to architect new applications and work in a small team of engineers on a big project. It will also require a product driven approach and having an opinion about what we are building. To succeed in this role you should have past experience of building a brand new code base and taking a product from concept to launch.

We value openness and kindness in our teamwork and work hard to make a positive impact on our customers and workforces. We believe that innovation in our work starts with the values we reflect in our team.

Tech Stack
~ NestJS(TypeScript)
~ Postgres/MongoDB
~ Prisma
~ GraphQL
~ RabbitMQ
~ Socket.io
~ Microservice architecture

What you will do

~ Work closely with functional heads, stakeholders to understand the requirements and come up with solutions.
~ Architect, develop, and maintain the product
~ Crafting technical specs, writing readable and extensible code, and keeping tabs on post-release metrics
~ Design fault-tolerant systems that can scale, and allow us to move quickly without impacting customer access
~ Responsible (together with the team members) for the Infrastructure platform, up-time, architecture & scale
~ Ensure technical design and development meets security compliance criteria at all time
~ Take a major part in our strategic growth — technology and process-wise

It’d be great if you also:
~ Investigate and address issues with performance, scalability, and maintainability
~ Participate in code reviews
~ Mentor and guide engineers on best practices

About you

~ Hands-on experience with MERN technologies stack
~ Typescript skills are must-have
~ Good understanding of software design patterns
~ Practical experience in building scalable real-time communication systems
~ Practical experience with extensive batch processing workloads
~ Experience with containerization using Docker is a plus
~ Familiarity with messaging services (SQS/RabbitMQ/AmazonMQ)
~ Experience with microservice-based software architecture
~ Knowledge of API documentation tools (Swagger)
~ Hands-on experience with cloud providers (Amazon Web Service)
~ Practical experience with third party API integrations
~ To be ready to tackle infrastructure challenges when needed
~ Good understanding and practical knowledge of CI/CD methods
~ Upper-Intermediate English

What You Get

~ Unlimited PTO for any reason, including sick days (no specified limits), flexible work schedule;
~ Personal laptop (MacBook Pro);
~ Trainings, certifications, conferences;
~ Private health & dental insurance;
~ English lessons
~ Business trips to assigned client headquarters in the US
~ Remote/coworking work;
~ Accounting and legal support required to file taxes.