Software Engineer , Backend

We are looking for an experienced  Software Engineer  to help lead the development of fast, well-tested, and performant code for our web applications and modernizing our application stack. If you are the kind of engineer passionate about developing well-built, reusable components following industry best practices, and love working in a collaborative environment with your product partners and dependency teams, then we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to build and maintain the user experience, accessibility, and development feasibility of the website, applications, and supporting digital spaces.
• Design and implement innovative solutions for the presentation of data and content on our websites, mobile apps, and other platforms.
• Adhere to JoVE’s brand standards and convey it cohesively across the website, supporting digital spaces and third-party platforms.
• Stay updated on the latest standards, changes, and web design and development trends.
• Contribute towards engineering excellence in areas like automated unit testing.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders on project design and implementation and other developers to maintain standards and create a reusable codebase
• Expected to be self-motivated, needing little guidance on completing tasks on time and meeting expectations in terms of requirements
• Explain and “whiteboard” complex technical issues to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation.
• Assist in automating deployments to development and other environments.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years  of experience building scalable, data-driven backend systems and APIs.
• Strong proficiency in  server-side programming  ( Node.js ,). Familiarity with  PHP  is an added advantage.
• Strong understanding of  system design ,  data architecture , and  microservices  or  modular monoliths .
• Skilled in designing and implementing  RESTful APIs  and integrating with  third-party services  and  external SDKs .
• Familiarity with  event-driven systems ,  asynchronous processing , and  message queues  (Kafka, SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.).
• Experienced with  SQL and NoSQL databases  — e.g.,  PostgreSQL ,  MongoDB ,  Redis ,— with the ability to optimize queries and model complex data relationships.
• Solid experience with  cloud-native architecture  using  AWS  (serverless, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, etc.) or equivalent platforms.
• Demonstrated understanding and implementation of software design principles such as  SOLID and DRY with Software as a Service (SaaS ), multi-tenancy application development
• Embraces the concepts of  Agile Scrum  software development and its related collaboration and issue-tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Rally)
• Experience working in a  Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery  (CICD) model, including GitHub and CI pipeline automation tools
• Ability to  triage and resolve  incidents and lead incident investigations.

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package.
• You will make a direct impact in accelerating science research and education.
• Opportunity to work with global teams and in an environment that promotes innovation and collaboration.
• Our strong promotion from within culture draws a clear path to advance your career with us.