Position: Senior Backend Engineer, Search Engine (Node.js) for Picsart
Company: Proxet
Experience required: 5y
Category: Node.js
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

You will work with cutting edge languages, frameworks, and tools such as:

- TypeScript, NestJS, JavaScript;
- MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Apache Solr/ElasticSearch;
- Cloud technologies, Microservices, Docker/Kubernetes, Spark, ELK Stack and much more.


Responsibilities: 

- Build mission-critical applications that process ten thousand requests per second through a microservices architecture;
- Develop APIs and integrations for a large-scale application according to business needs and priorities;
- Create high-quality code that is scalable, reliable and reusable;
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including development, code reviews, testing, and production deployment;
- Write unit/integration tests to ensure the high quality of the application.

Requirements: 

- 5+ years of experience with NodeJS;
- Experience with building RESTful services;
- Experience with document-oriented databases such as MongoDB;
- Experience with Unit/Integration testing and knowledge of corresponding frameworks, such as Mocha/Jest;
- Good knowledge of one relational or non-relational database;
- Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms. 

Would be a plus: 

- Experience with Java and Spring framework;
- Knowledge of design principles of high-performance scalable applications is a plus;
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes is a plus;
- Experience with Search Engines (ElasticSearch/Solr); 
- Experience with key-value databases such as Redis. 

About the project: 

Picsart is the world’s largest creative platform and a top 20 most downloaded app of 2020. Every month, the Picsart community creates, remixes and shares over a billion visual stories using the company’s powerful and easy-to-use editing tools. Picsart has amassed one of the largest open-source content collections in the world, including free-to-edit photos, stickers, backgrounds, templates and more. It is available in 30 languages for free and as a subscription on iOS, Android and Windows devices. Picsart is backed by Sequoia Capital, DCM Ventures, Insight Partners, and Siguler Guff & Company.