We are currently seeking a motivated and experienced Senior Backend/DevOps Engineer to join our growing Tech Team at Oppizi. This is a remote position open to candidates in Singapore/India or within the UTC+8 and UTC+5:30 time zone countries.
Job type - Full-time
Seniority level - Senior
Work type - Remote position
Schedule - Monday to Friday, fixed hours (09:00 - 18:00)
Expected start date - ASAP
Candidate location - Singapore/India
Team members - 12 Software Engineers, 3 AQA Engineers, 6 MQA Engineers, QA Lead, 2 UI/UX Designers, 3 Product Managers, Head of Product, and CTO
Team structure - the team is split between 4: Oppizi Ads (PMF team), Expansion (adapt new technology from Oppizi Ads to new countries), Core (legacy technology), Wild Duck (innovation team)
Work experience - 5+ years as a Senior Developer / Full-stack Engineer or another relevant role
Employment type - Full-time permanent position
Our team is always searching for innovative ideas and developments in marketing and product features. Our goal is to appeal to and efficiently meet the marketing requirements of a growing number of businesses. Our developers work on challenging projects to innovate our platform and benefit our customers and partners. As part of our dynamic team, you will contribute to a large-scale, complex product and see the real-time impact of your work on hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. The future recruit will build, maintain, and evolve our systems and the related tools. The position is fully remote.
We do a retrospective stand-up every day, i.e. talk about what you worked on yesterday. We’re all remote so it’s important to keep the communication up, and our team is distributed between Australia and Ukraine, so we maximize the little overlap we have each day.
You will be working with different extensive environments, including Platform, API, and Mobile App.
Responsibilities
- Use modern technologies and implement the best solutions in terms of efficiency and reliability;
- Collaborate with the PM and other teams to effectively meet the product and technical needs of the project;
- Proactively participate in improvements and existing solutions tuning;
- Building a testable code and unit/integration tests;
- Share expertise and knowledge with your teammates;
- Build, release, and configuration management (Git) of software deliverables;
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, testing, and production environments;
- Verification of coding standard compliance and code quality;
- Develop and own best practices/methodologies for provisioning, platform/App scaling, monitoring, etc.;
- Partner closely with your peers in Quality Assurance, Operations, and New Product teams to improve the quality and velocity of teams’ deliverables using goal setting, metrics, quarterly and annual planning, and prioritization. Manage, measure, and communicate the teams’ progress toward goals;
- Provide technical guidance and support via engineering design reviews to teams planning and implementing large-scale solutions, service-oriented architecture deployment, and capacity growth;
- Reports on software requirement traceability, static and dynamic code analysis, and code coverage analytics;
- Collaborate and coordinate with other teams for system upgrades and enhancements;
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies & tools (Scrum, Kanban, Jira);
- The main point of contact (admin) for JIRA/Confluence workflows, configuration, and docs;
- Plan and architect the tech for new app features, systems, and integrations, and make it happen;
- Apply pragmatism and best practices in software engineering, delivering projects on time, and with excellent quality;
- Writing tests and continually improving our build process;
- Take ownership of the app, finding ways to improve its effectiveness, reliability and cost;
- Solving problems at scale;
- Contribute towards our product practices and share knowledge to help improve our craft.
Must-Have Requirements
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript and the ECMAScript 6 standards
- 8+ years of commercial experience with Node.js
- Strong experience with AWS and other infrastructure-related technologies like Kubernetes
- Excellent communication skills, especially in understanding requirements and explaining technical or complex concepts
- Demonstrate a pervasive experience in JavaScript
- Experience with infrastructure development
- Experience and pragmatism in testing
- Commercial experience in implementing the REST, GraphQL, and WebSockets
- Understanding of the TDD principles and experience of writing tests
- Understanding of microservice architecture principles
- Understanding of clean architecture principles
- Experience with GIT version control system
- Experience with databases MongoDB, MySQL
- At least an Upper Intermediate level of English
- Experience with TypeScript
- Ability to efficiently learn new tools and languages
Nice-to-Have Requirements
- Experience with RabbitMQ
- Experience with Redis
- Experience with Python
- Competitive and timely compensation
- Monthly pay in USD
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
- Remote position
- Entrepreneurial environment
- Small team with growth opportunity
- Laptop provided (after probation period)
- International company
- Work 1 month per year overseas in one of Oppizi's offices around the world*
- Great culture, human-centered & 17 nationalities
- Work in a very successful bootstrapped company, no investors yet!
Why should you apply?
- Working on interesting/exciting tech
- Interested in dynamic and agile
- Close-knit team
