Job Description

Responsibilities

• Technical discussions with 6- 7 teams
• Onsite 5 days/ week Irving
• Software Engineer - APIs to join the Merch Technology Team
• You’re joining a multidisciplinary team of product managers, marketers, designers and engineers who create digital products that hundreds of thousands of people experience every day
• The SSE must have a strong and continuously growing proficiency in RESTful API development focused on Node.js
• This includes actively participating in designing, developing, reviewing, testing and deploying APIs (including supporting infrastructure) to drive our digital products
• Executes full product life-cycle (inception through deprecation) to create highly scalable and flexible RESTful APIs to enable an infinite number of digital products
• Collaborates with other Engineers, Creative/UX designers, Scrum Masters, Product Managers, Business Analysts and Architects

Requirements

• Minimum 10+ years of experience
• Node.JS - minimum 5 years; AWS: minimum 2 years; Mongo DB/Document DB - minimum 2 years
• Nonnegotiable: Excellent communication skills; Will be provided some handholding initially
• Needs to be proactive; Should be able to speak with 6-7 different teams
• “MUST HAVE” SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
• Expert in Node.js
• Knowledgeable in cloud platforms (preferable AWS: both traditional EC2 and serverless Lambda), micro-services architecture, CI/CD solutions (including Docker), DevOps principles, message queue systems, and background task management
• Experience with API security frameworks, token management and user access control including OAuth, JWT, etc
• Solid foundation and understanding of relational and NoSQL database principles
• 5+ years of experience in product development as senior engineer
• Well organized with a bias for action with minimal direction
• Ravenous about learning technology and problem solving
• Strong writing and communication skills
• ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS
• Large organization experience - Large Scale projects
• Ability to work in an Agile /SCRUM environment
• A team player with a start-up/entrepreneur mindset