Position: Middle Back-end Developer Node.js (Long Term Project)
Company: abz.agency
Category: Node.js
Experience required: 5y
English level: pre
Published: 2022-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

For a Long Term Project we are looking for a strong Middle Back-end Developer with 5+ years of experience. Project is already in production for several years and has thousands of RPS. 

High load, high responsibility, a lot of work (100% workload). Sounds interesting? Then we are waiting for you!

IMPORTANT! Updated on 9st of November 2022. 1 position vacant.

For a Long Term Project we are looking for a strong Middle Back-end Developer with 5+ years of experience. Project is already in production for several years and has thousands of RPS. You will work in a dedicated team for this project (~15 team members currently). Communication and technical documentation is in English only (written English is required). The client and his team are strong technical specialists, the tasks on the project are interesting and complex. High load, high responsibility, a lot of work (100% workload). Sounds interesting? Then we are waiting for you!

By clicking on the link (company name) in the vacancy header, you can find brief information about our company, video, photos, contacts of the HR manager and a link to our website.

**Our working conditions**
- First two months will be a paid probation period;
- Traineeship period paid as fixed monthly payment in UAH;
- Stable salary;
- Hourly rate is set in $;
- Official employment (by contract);
- Full work load of 160−200 hours per month and hourly rate ensuring all (extra) hours are paid;
- Revision of the hourly rate every six months by 5−25% (see more details in the «Opportunities/benefits» section below);
- Quarterly bonus, project performance based;
- English classes 2 times per week (groups of two people, after work hours);
- MacBook Pro 13/16, 4K monitor, stand, mouse, keyboard, headphones, comfortable chair, company branded T-shirt and mug;
- 75% of the salary is also paid for «bench». «Bench» means standby time — when you don’t have project and you work on your IDP or other personal/internal tasks to improve your knowledge and skills;
- Working day from 8:00 to 17:00 (1);
- Breakfast, lunches and other things in the kitchen at the expense of the company (coffee, tea, cookies, sweets, yogurts and drinks in the refrigerator);
- Work in one of two offices: 7 minutes from Osokorki metro station: 8 minutes from Lukianivska metro station or 15 minutes from Kontraktova Square metro station. (In a month, a new office is starting its work, 7 minutes away from Taras Shevchenko metro station).

**Requirements**
- 5+ years of experience;
- Strong knowledge of JS and Typescript;
- Experience with relational databases (particularly PostgreSQL);
- Experience with NoSQL databases (Redis, InfluxDB);
- Confident working with the Git version control system;
- Understanding basic design patterns and being able to apply them;
- Understanding and organizing CI/CD processes.

**Would be a plus**
- Knowledge of the Nest.js framework;
- High-loaded applications experience;
- Experience in working with large data sets, statistics;
- SQL queries optimizing experience;
- Minimal frontend development experience;
- Out-of-the-box thinking :)

**Current Technology Stack**
- Typescript / Nest.js;
- PostgreSQL;
- Redis;
- Influx DB;
- Heroku / AWS / GCP;
- Kubernetes;
- Cloudflare workers;
- Grafana;
- New Relic;
- React / Vue.js;
- Pug / SCSS;
- Webpack;
- Adguard SDK;

**Opportunities/benefits**
- Each employee has a mentor and together with him develops an PDP (Personal Development Plan) to improve skills and knowledge in different areas;
- Revision of the hourly rate happens every six months and depends on the implementation of the PDP and other performance indicators;
- Opportunity to learn NodeJS, modern frontend frameworks like Vue/React, iOS/Android React Native apps development or browser extensions development as part of the PDP (personal development program). After that you can participate in our projects also as a NodeJS developer, frontend developer, - - React Native developer and/or browser extension developer.
- Experienced colleagues ready to help with complex tasks. Technically savvy PMs who do task decomposition and know how to work with both the client and developers. No broken telephone game and no estimates handed down from the top;
- Mandatory peer code review and test coverage of important functionality, efficient QA process and task acceptance procedures;
- Opportunity to study related areas/technologies (frontend, browser extensions, React Native) — not abruptly, but systematically as if working on a complete mini-project; being guided by a mentor and according to a plan drawn up with a mentor, with the tasks accepted by a QA, etc.

(1) The plan for the day is made at the stand-up meeting and must be accomplished (considering common sense) within the day according to the checkpoints. After accepting the work, the PM finalizes the working day.