Position: Back-end engineer (Airlock Squad)
Company: Woolf
Experience required: 3y
Category: Node.js
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

Woolf is bringing innovation and convenience to the conservative world of EdTech. We help colleges from all over the globe to accredit their degree programs in the EU and USA. Our API and SDK allow them to track students' educational records on external LMS and ensure regulatory compliance.

We are looking for a self-motivated and self-managing back-end engineer with significant professional experience who will work with a product manager, back-end and front-end engineers, and a security specialist to solve common goals.

The focus of the Airlock team is public API and Webhooks development with ongoing operational behaviors for scaling, little to zero downtimes, and a highly reliable and convenient experience for our customers and their developers.

Read more at https://developer.woolf.university

**Responsibilities**

- Develop features and improvements to the Airlock product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
- Craft code that meets our internal standards and best practices for a high-scale environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
- Recognize barriers to our efficiency as a team, propose and implement solutions.
- Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members, but collaborate on larger projects.

**Requirements**

- Significant professional experience with Typescript, GraphQL, NodeJS, PostgreSQL.
- Deep knowledge of API & Webhooks development. Experience with simultanious data stream processing.
- Ability to communicate about complex technical, architectural, and organizational problems and propose comprehensive iterative solutions.
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent them.
- Strong communication skills and proficiency in written & verbal English.
- Bonus points: Experience with EdTech.
- Bonus points: Experience with Startups.

**Hiring Process**

Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below.

- 15min screening with a recruiter to gather your profile and discovers organizational matters.
- 60 min interview with tech leads to evaluate your experience, share our needs, and ensure they meet each other.
- 30 min interview with a CTO to share the vision & values and ensures they resonate with your personality.

**Careers at Woolf**

You will have the 30/60/90 onboarding plan, biweekly 101s, and quarterly performance reviews. We measure the efficiency of our engineers according to their contribution to the reliability of features and code quality and their experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.

Engineers at Woolf are innovative, product-focused, and mission-aligned. They iteratively create measurable value and follow performance and security guidelines. If it resonates with you, we would love to see you onboard.