Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Skills
Typescript
AWS
Kafka
Docker
Kubernetes
Redis
Job Details
Details of the job position:
Role: Typescript Architect
Job Location: Denver, CO (Onsite)
Job Summary:
Client is looking for a Sr. Typescript backend engineer to work in a small, agile team. The team creates REST and event-driven microservices that focus on using caching and reporting to improve our customers’ experience. The team works at scaling, handling many millions of REST and Kafka events each day. Engineers on this team create new microservices and improve existing microservices. Projects are usually of considerable complexity and require a mastery of development tools. Engineers are expected to design and implement scalable, dependable systems as needed. As this is a small team, engineers
must be self-starters, capable of handling responsibility and making decisions.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Client is looking for a Sr. Typescript backend engineer to work in a small, agile team. The team creates REST and event-driven microservices that focus on using caching and reporting to improve our customers’ experience. The team works at scaling, handling many millions of REST and Kafka events each day. Engineers on this team create new microservices and improve existing microservices. Projects are usually of considerable complexity and require a mastery of development tools. Engineers are expected to design and implement scalable, dependable systems as needed. As this is a small team, engineers
must be self-starters, capable of handling responsibility and making decisions.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide technical direction and solutions to architectural, development, and operational teams on assigned projects
- Lead architecture to formulate and review new software/hardware platforms
- Evaluate complex designs and resolve issues within internal and external systems to advance business projects
- Design and support application systems and infrastructure within assigned technology domains
- Formulate criteria, technologies, and use cases for and execute proofs-of-concept for new approaches and platforms
- Assess interfaces and interoperability among systems to evaluate impacts of changes and integrations
- Shape technology strategy and establish best practices for code design, API contracts, version control and automation to drive innovation Inquisitive nature and eager to explore new concepts and approaches
- Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
- Code, test, debug, and enhance software.
- Monitor and repair critical systems on an as needed basis.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation.
- Serve as the final escalation point to resolve incidents and problems for production applications and web services supported by the team in accordance with identified Service Level Agreements.
- Collaborate with internal customers, technical and architecture teams to solve complex software problems.
- Provide system users and management with system analysis and improvement recommendations.
- Identify and recommend system design/requirements for software enhancements.
- Implement, monitor, test, and audit new software programs to maximize efficiency of software systems.
- Participate in continuous performance improvement sessions to discuss opportunities to improve processes and/or standards.
- Coordinate with technical teams to analyze and resolve software related problems causing operational difficulties, advising on specialized features and functions.
- Maximize the efficiency of the various software systems by implementing, monitoring, testing and auditing new software programs.
- Follow established configuration/change control processes.
- Collaborate with customers and internal/external technical teams to identify software problems and communicate remediation plans
- Mentor and coach junior team members.
- Strong experience with Node.js and Typescript
- Understanding of DynamoDB or other key-value stores and NoSQL databases
- Experience using AWS managed services
- Experience with caching architectures, particularly Redis
- Experience with messaging, especially Kafka MSK
- Strong experience with containerization and container orchestration, (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, Argo, etc).
- Experience with monitoring technologies (Splunk, Instana, Datadog, Prometheus, etc).
- Knowledge of API documentation, especially Swagger (OpenAPI)
- Experience using CI/CD automation (Jenkins, Gitlab)
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