Position: Lead NodeJS Developer
Company: Movoto Real Estate
Category: Node.js
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

About the Project:
The project is an early learning program for children aged 2-8 that is personalized to their interests to help them fall in love with reading. It has been proven to increase early reading scores by 74% with just 15 minutes a day. Children have fun while learning through stories and activities.
The program combines children’s passions and current reading level to create a personalized learn-to-read plan on their Android phone or tablet. It includes thousands of lessons and games on the alphabet, phonics, sight words, and more. When kids read about what they love, they love learning to read.

PRESS AND AWARDS:
The Customer’s product has been featured on the TODAY Show and Morning Joe as well as in the New York Times, USA Today, Forbes, and Parents Magazine. The customer has won the prestigious Teachers’ Choice and Mom’s Choice Awards.

Team Composition and locations: 2 developers (located in Belarus) are on the partner side, the TL and the rest of the team is on the customer’s side.

Project Tech Stack: Node.js + TypeScript, TypeORM + PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, GraphQL, Serverless
Current Project Stage: development

Project Duration: ongoing, for 4+months

Project Advantages:
New project with modern stack, no legacy code
Opportunity to take key roles in project architecture, design & development
The customer is open to new technical considerations: every developer can bring something new to the ecosystem.
Agile environment: the customer is goal-oriented and has a good sense of which technical options are beneficial for the project—technical refactoring/rewriting is welcome if justified.

Responsibilities:
Code, test and operate Node.js based services
Migrate new development
Effectively use tools and ingenuity to identify and fix bugs before they become a problem
Take over maintenance and extend existing services
Optimize use cases and error handling/test completeness

Requirements:
At least 5+ years of experience with Node.js
Knowledge of frameworks available for Node.js (such as Express, Node-RED, Device.js, Cylon.js)
Knowledge of TypeScript, ORM frameworks (TypeORM/Sequelize.js/etc.)
Authorization (passport.js, roles)
Express.js / hapi.js / nest.js
Experience in NoSQL databases (including MongoDB) and RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
Strong understanding of software best practices, data structures, algorithms, databases and networks
Strong organizational skills
 
Nice to have:
Knowledge of Jira, Agile, scrum (basics)
AWS (Lambda, Cognito and many more), GraphQL, Serverless, Redis
English level:
Upper-Intermediate