The Back End Developer will create scalable services, REST APIs, and workflows, working with cloud architecture and collaborating with team members on app designs.
NOTE: THIS POSITION IS TO JOIN AS W2 ONLY.
Back End Developer
Location: Silver Spring - MD (Remote)
Duration: 12 Months
Project: We are actively seeking a motivated Back-end Developer to enhance our dynamic team. The ideal candidate is a team player who works well with others but is also able to work independently. You excel at creating and improving scalable services in line with innovations. As a Back-end Developer, your role could include building services, REST APIs, and state aware workflows largely in cloud environments. We love collaborating with teammates on new app designs, partnering with front-end developers, Quality Analysts, Business Analysts, and other team members to combine work into a cohesive product, and improving existing services.
Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role
- Develop and maintain applications using cloud architecture working in Jira and Git
- Ability to build from user stories and be active in technical design
- Build efficient, scalable, secure, and observable applications
- Able to take and give feedback in team meetings and code review
- Build and maintain highly scalable services and workflows
- Be proactive and responsive in addressing technical issues
Must Have Skills:
- Go and additional scripting language experience
- 7+ years of experience in Go is required; Node, C#, Rust.
- Database Integration experience
- 5+ years of experience; Ingesting data, making queries, updating and populating documents – Relevant skills and experience.
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
- 3+ years of experience.
Background: Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
Technology Requirements:
- Capable of self-deployments in a well-defined container pipeline
- Firm understanding of cloud infrastructure
- Solid experience with Go and one or more of the following: Node, C#, Rust
- Understanding of SQL and document database development
- Experience with workflow engines (SDVI Rally, Airflow, Step Functions, Argo Workflows, Jenkins, etc.)
Nice to Have Skills:
- Experience working in Media/Entertainment.
- Experience with Video Engineering (AWS Media Convert, FFMpeg, etc.)
- Hiring Team prefers ET working hours.
- Strong understand of Go required
Top Skills
Aws Media Convert
C#
Cloud Infrastructure
Container Pipeline
Ffmpeg
Git
Go
JIRA
Node.js
Rust
SQL
Workflow Engines
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