Position: Javascript Full-stack developer (Munich)
Company: nearshorefriends GmbH
Category: Node.js
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

Our Client is a small international team which develops the comparison portal for Provisional Insurances. Using Agile/Lean/Kanban methodologies, we build it, we run it, we break it, we fix it, we Kaizen it: our Product and tech stack are loosely coupled to the rest of the 4-digits-employees company.

We write quality code that gets deployed asap to production. But hold your horses, first it’s blessed by our QAs and PMs, code-reviewed by our Full Stack Engineers and built on the CI/CD pipeline.

**Your Qualifications:**
-You have at least 3 years of professional engineering experience
-Ideally as a Full Stack JavaScript Engineer, developing SPAs on a microservices architecture
-You like maintainable, unit-tested code
-Have high stamina when facing challenges
-You are fluent in English (German is a plus)
-And you use your language skills for collaboration and communication reasons
-You are flexible enough to integrate into a team with existing methodologies, codebase, and mascot
 
**Your Responsibilities:**
-Keep our external and internal users happy
-Get involved in pretty much everything while creating and improving features end-to-end: DevOps, CI/CD improvements, database schemas and queries, Backend & Frontend JS, CSS
-Refactor code, pay back technical debt, identify and squash bugs, write tests
-Work on very exciting and very boring tasks, both with and without deadlines
-Receive and provide feedback in Code Reviews, juggling concerns like robustness, maintainability, development-speed, performance, security and architecture
-Support our PM team in designing complex features
-Grow your skills, share your knowledge with our team and beyond
-Participate in meetings of agile processes and technical nature, no more than 10-15% of your time
 
**Your Benefits:**
-We are accessible, help each other, joke with each other, and we keep it informal
-Onsite position, close to the city center of Munich, Germany
-Startup feeling inside a big, solid company at the headquarters
-Spacious modern office, making it easy to maintain the COVID-19 distances
-We also offer the possibility to work from the home office by appointment
-Flexible working hours
-Staff development programs and various training opportunities (soft skill training, programs for high achieving employees, career pathways to expert and leadership roles, conferences)
-Company pension scheme
-Enjoy our free selection of beverages, fruits, and vegetables
-“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch”: except once per week
-Cash-back vouchers for products and services
-Subsidized urban transport pass (MVV-ticket)
-Paid German language courses

**Our Tech stack:** Docker everywhere, flirting with K8s, 80+ microservices architecture, VMware vSphere, Ansible, MongoDB with Mongoose, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Node.js, NSQ, ES6, koa, Next.js, React, MobX, Less CSS, Atlassian-all-the-things. Our dev-env is OS and IDE agnostic as it can run on Windows, Mac, or Linux, and our code gets developed with love on WebStorm, VSCode, Vim.