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Backend Developer

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Fortnight Studio

2021-12-03 10:00:03

Job location Barkingside, Greater London, United Kingdom

Job type: fulltime

Job industry: I.T. & Communications

Job description

We're a small team of creative thinkers and makers, building award-winning mobile apps and websites for ambitious and caring brands - like Bumble, King, OnePlus, Simba Sleep, Riot Games (League of Legends), and many other awesome clients. We work on the entire digital product journey, from branding to wireframes, through to design prototypes, high-fidelity designs, front & backend development, mobile app development and ongoing product optimisation & strategy. About the role:

We are looking for a talented engineer to join our team and help us guide the vision of our young studio for a variety of internal and external mobile applications. As an ideal candidate you'll have a great all-round understanding of technology, you'll thrive in a small team working together to solve difficult problems and you're excited about defining and building technical solutions and architectures. As our lead back end engineer we expect you to:

  • Show strong expertise in NodeJS and JavaScript, but an overall technical understanding across other stacks is appreciated
  • Strong experience working on Mobile Apps (80% of our work is mobile app based)
  • Have experience with API design, development and deployment via AWS
  • Experience with AWS (IAM, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, DynamoDB, Route53)
  • Experience with AWS SES, SQS, KMS, Secrets Manager
  • Practical experience with TDD / BDD
  • Experience with databases (SQL, NoSQL, GraphQL, DynamoDB)
  • Experience with Git, including understanding of branching and merging workflow
What we expect from you:
  • Exceptional communication/interpersonal skills, especially important when most of our comms will happen over Slack
  • Perfectly organised and timely
  • A problem-solving attitude, you enjoy building stuff and getting your hands dirty
  • Work with business co-founders to define project scopes and be involved in key project pitches on occasion
  • Champion accountability for goals and deadlines across the team, proactively communicating project status through reports, meetings, and ad hoc communications
Nice to have:
  • Experience with deploying, hosting, securing, monitoring and scaling in the cloud and experience with configuration management tools (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
  • A good eye for design and a perfectionist attitude as you'll be working closely with our designers
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  • Macbook
  • Flexi-working
  • Bonus scheme
  • Telephone call
  • Tech Test
  • Video Call with Team
  • Offer
Node.js, JavaScriptNode.js, JavaScript, AWS, APIs, TDD, SQL, Git

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