About this Staff Backend Engineer - Financial Services role at Yassir
About the Role
As a Backend Staff Engineer, you will drive the technical standards for the Backend across our consumer domain, working with multiple squads inside the domain. You will lead Backend engineers with tech roadmaps, architecture decisions, and feature development and release cycle. You will mentor junior developers. You will contribute to scaling up Backend engineers in multiple squads and bringing great talents on board by conducting technical interviews.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
Design, build and maintain features for the domain applications
Provide technical leadership and manage dependencies
Conduct design and code reviews
Help the domain team members with technical blockers supporting them and helping them grow
Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize efficiency
Participate in architecture and design discussions
Participate strongly in building the technical roadmap
Conduct technical interviews
Help Improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Perform feasibility studies to validate capability and functionality
Draft and submit intellectual property
Research and assess current technologies
Develop and execute complex, multi-tier distributed software search applications
Create technical and domain expertise and apply to products and problems
Assess and write code to improve or extend application
Manage and assist current software applications
Experience providing technical leadership, and mentoring others
Requirements
Strong foundation in programming fundamentals
Database: Mongodb or other.
Framework: Nest j.s.
Web architecture: Rest and restful APIs, micro-services
Substantial experience with Git in a team environment
Containers: Docker, kubernetes
Caching, Redis server
Experience in a rapidly growing company in the mobility, on-demand or fintech space is a plus
Web load balancing
Scaling
OS administration
Encryption: https//, digital signing
Excellent communication skills
Enjoy solving problems and helping others meet their goals
Solid understanding of X
Experience writing testable code and unit tests
Have a deep knowledge of React JS and NodeJS, and you have experience developing products with it
Experience using modern JavaScript and tooling in a full-stack setting
Extensive experience with A/B experiments and have a data-driven attitude toward product development
