Backend Software Engineer - 1905022

Job Title: Backend Software Engineer

Location: Milwaukee, WI, or Remote

Company: Fortune 100 Client

Type: Long-term contract (8 months)

Perks: Top rates, benefits, free daily lunch onsite

Notifications Platform is looking for Software Engineers to help grow the ever-expanding platform and its capabilities. This role would be responsible for working with a group of eleven engineers in improving the existing Notification Platform architecture, building new features, and helping educate other internal teams at our Fortune 100 client on how to use the Platform. The Platform delivers millions of emails, push notifications, web/ui notifications, and offers a real-time chat service our clients and Financial Advisors.

The Notifications Platform team has grown from three to eleven engineers over four years. The current engineering team is self-driven, extremely talented individuals who have shown substantial growth and development in their technical skills. They are the main contributing factor to the success of the Platform, and you will be working with a team of highly competent team members. All infrastructure is built in Amazon Web Services (AWS) using a JavaScript/TypeScript micro-service architecture. Numerous features are built using AWS infrastructure such as RDS, DyanmoDB, Lambda, SQS, OpenSearch, and Kubernetes. Services use tooling like GraphQL, Express, NodeJS with the help of GitHub CoPilot.

Responsibilities:

• Works within an Agile development team to craft and implement enterprise data capabilities and services utilizing JavaScript and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Develops new code and tests using CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Maintains existing platform by improving, refactoring, or enhancing current micro-service architecture.

Qualifications:

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or 2+ years of experience in back-end software engineering.
• Boot camp completion or internship preferred
• Good at writing clean, modular, readable, and testable code.
• Experience with JavaScript, NodeJS for backend development, AWS cloud, JEST, Ditest, CI/CI pipelines
• Advocate of Test Driven Development, with experience using unit testing frameworks. Familiar with enterprise software architectural patterns: microservice, integration, and messaging patterns.
• Proficient with GIT and CI/CD practices and agile development methodologies.