Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain new and existing web-based applications.
• Coordinate with engineering to define and prioritize engineering projects.
• Able to work in a dynamic and diverse engineering culture – every day, we learn from each other, brainstorm and execute ideas, and play ping pong to unwind.
• Build a great product that impacts consumer online behavior – we’re proud that our product is changing the way people shop online.
• Interest in exploring and learning the latest technologies in the industry.
• As part of the engineering team, you will advise the organization as to which technology stacks/cloud/data solutions to use in Taiwan.
• Ensure that systems are always available, fast and highly scalable to accommodate unprecedented demand.
• Help develop the best possible continuous delivery pipelines supporting features like automatically promotion to production, automated canary releasing or blue-green deployments.

Essential Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Hands on experience working with NodeJS (Most Preferred).
• Experience working with cloud services like AWS, Heroku or Google cloud platform.
• Experience with different databases. Relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL, …) or NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra)
• Extensive REST API development experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a team player with strong analytical, problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in configuration management and orchestration (experience with Chef/Ansible/Puppet is an added bonus).
• Demonstrated the ability to look forward and anticipate problems and needs.
• Worked with CI/CD tooling, Jenkins/Travis.
• Experience in distributed system design/operation.
• Hands on experience in ETL data pipelines and big data computing framework (Spark).

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