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Full Stack Developer (with Backend Emphasis)
2 years ago
We are an award winning digital product studio with over 250 people in 5 different studios across the globe (London, Malmö, New York, Lisbon and Tokyo).
For 17 years we have been helping our clients grow by creating innovative, engaging and beautiful digital products that evoke an emotional response. Humans are at the heart of everything we create and our processes and culture reflect this.
The projects we undertake vary from highly strategic discovery work to large-scale build projects and everything in between. Our clients include: The Body Coach, Google, The Co-op, Blackrock, Christie’s auction house, and many more. Check out our documentary about the incredibly transformative journey we’ve taken The Body Coach on.
The ustwo Europe Studio is looking for an experienced senior full-stack software developer to help us grow our digital product team. Specifically, we’re looking for someone who can work across the web stack, but has a particular emphasis on backend and infrastructure development.
As the world changes around us, the challenges our clients are asking us to take on are becoming more fundamental, more strategic and more vital than ever to the success of their organisations.
As a developer you will work to solve difficult problems and build beautiful and intuitive products within a cross-functional team of technologists, designers, product owners and agile coaches.
This role is fully remote.
You are:
- Current in your practice. You have solid software development fundamentals and a working understanding of modern, best-practice software development practices and workflow. You keep up with the latest trends in technology.
- Highly Collaborative. Able to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams of designers, developers and product managers using Agile and Lean principles.
- A clear communicator . Capable of conveying ideas and breaking down concepts clearly to a diverse range of stakeholders (verbally and written).
- Open to sharing. Whether that be your thoughts, ideas and work in-progress.
- Want to grow . You seek out opportunities to learn, promoting regular feedback with those who you work with.
- Resilient . Can handle pressure and work in a dynamic and fast-moving environment.
- Adaptable . Can handle ambiguity and are comfortable switching contexts and able to apply your practice across a range of industries and different deliverables and goals.
Must haves
- You have exceptional professional development experience.
- Strong experience in Node.js for backend services (e.g. Express).
- Strong experience with React, or another major web framework such Angular.
- Experience with containerised services and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, etc.)
- Working knowledge of modern cross-browser HTML5+, ES6+ and CSS3+
- Applying the best design patterns for various application requirements (MVC, MVVM, Mediator, Rx, Flux, etc.)
- Awareness of the most established libraries, their ecosystems and how to choose between them
- Knowledge about choosing the best databases and their characteristics (SQL / NoSQL / real-time, etc.)
- Experience with API integration / testing / design / implementation (e.g. REST, GraphQL, etc.).
- Knowledge of Continuous Integration / Deployment
- Experience with automated testing (e.g. unit, integration, API, etc.)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working within agile environments including Scrum / Kanban.
Nice to have
- Experience with deploying, hosting, securing, monitoring and scaling in the cloud (Google Cloud Platform or AWS) and experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Terraform, Chef, Puppet, KMS, etc.)
- Experience in building highly scalable and resilient web applications
- Practical experience with TDD and / or BDD (using frameworks such as Mocha, Jest, Cucumber, Rspec, Capybara, Selenium, etc.)
As a certified B-Corp and an equal opportunity employer, we very much value diversity and inclusion. We believe diverse teams help us make better products and we actively hire for cultural growth. We seek people of all ages, stories and backgrounds.
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