Backend Developer (Javascript)

CORE PROFILE

A Backend Javascript Software Engineer will design, deliver, and maintain high-quality, highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and compliant payment channel integration systems for use of Maya’s payment acceptance solutions. The engineer along with their team will follow the mantra “you build it, you test it, you deploy it” to deliver software to production. The engineer must also be adaptable to modern technology and understand system integrations specifically under the payments domain.

NATURE OF WORK

• Build, test, deploy, enhance and maintain payment platforms and services with Maya Enterprise Services Engineering focusing specifically on its channel integration and interfaces.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to HTTP requests, responses, and performance.
• Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to effectively design and deliver software systems that fulfill platform level requirements for Maya’s various payment acceptance and payment integration solutions.
• Collaborate with the team to build solutions that empower, enable and improve the team’s software engineering processes (e.g., CI improvements, automations, etc.).
• Facilitate improvements in technologies and processes via proofs of concepts, process changes, studies and innovation.

DISPLAYED SKILL MASTERY

• Team-oriented and highly collaborative.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Driven, self-starter, high-initiative and has a growth mindset.
• Experience in delivering (build, test, deploy) highly-scalable, performant, and fault-tolerant services and products that follow engineering standards and best practices.
• Strong system software and system design skills.
• Expertise and mastery of Javascript, Typescript, Nodejs.
• Proven experience with HTTP protocols, including RESTful APIs and web services.
• Experience with relational database technology.
• Experience with AWS.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Years of Experience: 3+ years software development experience in similar role and/or stack (advised below)
• Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• Strong knowledge / solid experience of Javascript, Typescript, Nodejs is required.
• Knowledge / experience in Golang is a plus.
• Knowledge / experience in any relational database platform is required. (PostgreSQL, Oracle is a plus)
• Strong knowledge and experience in automated unit and integration testing is required.
• Experience with Git is required.
• Knowledge in containerization (Docker) is required.
• Familiarity with event-driven, streaming, and/or data processing architectures powered by Apache Kafka or similar technologies (Apache Flink, AWS Kinesis, AWS SNS, AWS SQS, etc.) is preferred.
• Knowledge and experience in container orchestration Kubernetes and/or Helm as accompanying infrastructure as code is a big plus (Similar: AWS ECS).
• Knowledge in designing and deploying in a cloud environment (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) is a big plus.
• Knowledge of Terraform or any similar technology (AWS Cloud Formation, etc.) as cloud infrastructure as code is preferred.
• Familiarity in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is required. Experience in developing CI/CD pipelines is preferred.
• Experience in any Scrum or Kanban preferred but not required.