Senior Node.js Developer at Insightful

Senior Node.js Developer

• Worldwide
• Remote OK
• Full-Time
• Development

About us

Insightful is a market-leading platform for employee productivity and workforce analytics. We process really big data, synthesize it into actionable insights and ultimately provide a best-in-class/easy-to use product which empower enterprise customers to improve employee productivity, business processes and overall staff well-being.

Job Description

We are looking for experienced engineers to join us in building our microservices. We are valuing quality over quantity and since we are processing a huge amount of data, challenges are performance oriented.

Our codebase was written from scratch in 2019 and our stack includes: Node.js written in TypeScript, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis on top of Kubernetes(GKE).

Responsibilities:

• Work as BE member in a cross-functional team and collaborating with other technology roles
• Writing high-performance, scalable, testable and reusable code
• Optimization of applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Maintenance and improvement of existing libraries and modules
• Develop the best practices for our code base
• Choose the most effective tools for everyday routines

Requirements:

• 6+ years of programming experience
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript
• 3+ years of experience with Node.js
• Strong fundamentals in software design
• Understanding of the nature of asynchronous programming
• Understanding of server side development
• Experience with databases (preferably NoSQL)
• Fluency in English

These are minimum requirements, and candidates not meeting them would not be considered.

Experience with the following will be considered a big plus:

• Technologies like ElasticSearch, MongoDB or Kafka
• Microservices and distributed software development
• WebSockets (SocketIO)
• Test driven development
• Familiarity with front-end technologies including Angular, HTML, and CSS