Position: Expert Cloud Developer
Company: Nortal
Category: Node.js
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

About the vacancy
Nortal welcomes an experienced Expert Cloud Developer for our client – a digital services expert!

Do you think of life as an infinite set of microservices? Do you envision a serverless future? Where are scale and performance only limited by our imagination? Then you could be an asset to our team! As a Expert Cloud Developer, you'll be working on the cloud native applications that support user-facing applications, integrate with various systems, and enable data intelligence.

About our client
Our client is a multi award-winning Belgian digital agency that design and deliver digital products and platforms from the idea to realization. They work with the latest technologies and support the clients’ digital roadmap in the areas of machine learning, digital strategy, software engineering, and user experience. They have a highly performing team of 150+ experts, including service designers, software developers, user researchers, data analysts, strategists, and architects. With 11 years of experience, our client has already developed more than 400 innovative applications.

About the project
You'll join the multidisciplinary team consisting of developers, designers, and product managers working on cutting-edge mobile applications and platforms. In a world where technology is evolving at an unprecedented (and ever-increasing) rate, it is crucial to have a modular, scalable, extendable cloud platform where updates can be deployed in minutes. It will be the responsibility of you and your team to build such a platform, using the most appropriate combination of cloud, application, and database technologies.

Mission
As a team member, you’ll be taking part in the continuous development of the products that are in the care of your team.

- Day to day, you will be engaged in developing new user stories, fixing bugs, creating & reviewing pull requests, documenting your work (code comments, readme, confluence, etc.), performing research, making suggestions for product improvements, and communicating clearly about your progress
- Together with your colleagues, you’ll be making sure the product meets all functional and non-functional requirements
- As an engineer, you understand that producing clean, readable, and testable code is always a priority

Requirements
- 5+ years’ experience working as a Cloud Developer
- Strong knowledge of the Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services
- Knowledge of database technologies such as Redis, MongoDB, InfluxDB
- Excellent knowledge of Node.js, Express.js
- You hold a master or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Informatics (or equal through a proven track record)
- You have a solid grasp of common software engineering practices, like OO principles, modern design patterns, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment
- You're a big fan of clean code and clean architecture, and you apply those principles to produce clean, readable, and testable code
- You’re always keen to learn new things, share your knowledge, adopt to changes, and learn from past experiences
- You’re able to work in a team and are always open for feedback from your teammates
- You understand the importance of application security and data security and know how that affects your job
- Skilled in Docker
- Good command of English

Nice to have
- Understanding of messaging and broker systems (Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Kafka,) is a plus
- Basic knowledge of networking (IP, routing, IPSec, TCP) and networking related services (DNS, firewall, DHCP) is a plus
- Knowledge of Terraform, Go, Elastic Search is considered a plus