Senior Engineer, Backend

Overview

Senior backend engineer to help lead development of fast, well-tested, performant code for JoVE's web applications and modernize the application stack.

What you'll do

• 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 websites, mobile apps, and other platforms.
• Adhere to JoVE's brand standards and convey them 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.
• 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.
• Triage and resolve incidents and lead incident investigations.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of experience building scalable, data-driven backend systems and APIs.
• At least 2 years of experience in a technical leadership role, leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Strong proficiency in server-side programming (Node.js).
• Familiarity with frontend technologies: React, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS.
• 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.
• Experience 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) and multi-tenancy application development.
• Embraces 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.

Details

• Fully remote role.
• Locations listed: Gurugram, Haryana, India; Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.