Junior Backend Engineer
Lush Handmade Cosmetics is a global enterprise focused on creating indulgent cosmetics and bath products. They are seeking a Junior Backend Engineer to contribute to backend services and tooling that support the global business, including developing custom software and integrating third-party solutions.
Responsibilities
- Write clear, maintainable code that will scale across projects and distributed development teams
- Collaborate with engineers, QAs, designers, and partners to solve interesting and challenging problems for delivering scalable technology worldwide
- Refactor, review and maintain existing enterprise application code bases ensuring scalability, performance and security are taken into consideration, building new features to support the growth of global business
- Actively research and implement innovative techniques and features to enhance the development process
Skills
- TypeScript development experience, proficient in the native libraries and able to demonstrate a genuine interest in TypeScript coding philosophy and practices
- Able to translate product or business requirements into technological initiatives
- Able to autonomously debug and resolve issues
- Comfortable writing SQL queries
- Have a very good working knowledge of git
- Have experience building web applications using a web framework like Express
- Have experience building GraphQL APIs with Apollo federated GraphQL or Hive Gateway experience as a bonus
- Have working experience of application packaging and deployment
- Some knowledge of Docker would be ideal
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