Senior Software Developer (Node.js / PHP)

You will work directly with the product owner of a cool startup and a team of software developers. You will be a team player to embrace challenges and innovate new solutions with cutting edge technologies. You will be an expert knowledge source to implement required Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist the team to support and maintain all software components.
• Strong team player who is able to communicate well, and excited to learn new technologies in a fast phase environment.
• Assist AWS infrastructure in running the required services.
• Have strong knowledge in Linux systems and server management.
• Able to efficiently configure AWS Elastic Beanstalk , Cloudwatch , IAM , Route 53,Elasticache, Redis and others.
• Adopts best development practices and modern tools such as Git, VM, Vagrant, Docker and etc.
• Ensure good documentation practices.
• Benchmark and optimize performance as necessary.
• Promote infrastructure best practices like security, release management, monitoring.
• Design infrastructure that is resilient, secured and build highly available platform.
• Facilitate the building and releasing of features by the engineering team.
• Build tools and processes that increase the productivity of other engineers and ensure an efficient release pipeline.
• Promote and nurture good team practices such as TDD, system security, code reviews, and pair programming.
• Bring vision to the team in the form of new technology recommendations, ideas and approaches.
• Provide Level 3 Support and create/integrate support infrastructure.
• Automate deployments according to best practices.
• Provide quality codes by testing and using up to date technologies.
• Learn needed technologies and assist team when in need of assistance.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Strong Node.js knowledge (mandatory).
• Able to understand PHP and codes designed in Laravel framework.
• Able to smoothly integrate third party services when needed, and handle curl operations.
• Understands how the following technologies work: JWT, SSL, WebSocket.
• Able to implement database solutions for new or existing features using MySQL / PostgreSQL (mandatory)
• Have expert knowledge on caching using Redis or Memcached.
• Strong in JavaScript language and experienced in non-relational database is a plus.
• Assist a team of software engineers when additional help is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field of study.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is a plus.
• At least 3-5 years of experience in web development is preferred.
• Open for Singaporean to apply