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Job#: 3040458
Job Description:
Back-End Engineer
Location: Dearborn, Michigan (Friday's Remote)
Role Overview
In this role, employees develop and maintain the back-end components of an application, including APIs, services, and business logic. The current focus is approximately 90% backend and 10% frontend development. This position operates within a cloud-native environment, utilizing modern AI and LLM tools to enhance development workflows and productivity. While it is primarily a backend role, candidates should anticipate some exposure to frontend engineering with React.
Key Responsibilities

• Engage with customers and stakeholders to translate use-cases into scalable technical solutions.
• Design and deliver robust services, primarily using Node.js/TypeScript.
• Contribute to frontend development using React to support end-to-end feature delivery.
• Leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to optimize development workflows and accelerate code generation.
• Utilize and integrate with application data storage, such as Postgres, to support business logic.
• Architect, deploy, and manage services on Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform), ensuring high availability and performance.
• Champion quality through Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), using tools like Cucumber and Playwright.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Tekton to automate deployments.
• Apply Agile and Clean Code principles, focusing on small releases and continuous integration.
• Optimize infrastructure to improve application resiliency and monitor system health.
• Support security practices to safeguard user data through encryption and anonymization.

Required Qualifications
Education: A Bachelor's Degree is required.
Experience: 6+ years of combined professional experience in backend development with Node.js/TypeScript. Demonstrated experience leveraging AI and LLMs is necessary. Candidates must have working experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) or other major cloud providers. Experience with TDD/BDD ideologies using tools such as Cucumber and Playwright is required, along with familiarity with front-end engineering principles using React. A strong understanding of agile software development frameworks and CI/CD tools like GitHub, Jenkins, and Tekton is also required.
Technical Skills: Google Cloud Platform Cloud Run, Cloud Architecture, Java, Application Testing, and Agile Software Development.
Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with front-end libraries such as ReactJS, VueJS, or AngularJS.
• 2+ years of professional experience with TypeScript.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
• Node.js, additional testing methodologies, and JavaScript.

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