Senior JavaScript Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer as a member of our engineering team to help us develop our flagship product, Phenom. This person should be passionate about software development, with an engineering mindset, with excellent knowledge of computer science concepts and proven experience & expertise with (micro)services and web application development, regardless of the languages or frameworks used.

Responsibilities

• You’ll work in a Scrum team responsible for delivering one or more Phenom components (i.e. Review, Screening, Invoicing, Reporting, Syndication).
• As a Software Developer, you will be responsible for the following:
  • Delivering solid and maintainable software through good processes.
  • Taking ownership over a whole component/product/project’s lifecycle, including being involved in the design phase and performing operational tasks such as deployments and monitoring.
  • Mentoring the teams, being a technical role model, and being able to popularize, defend, and reevaluate technical decisions.
  • Work with the product team to define requirements, identify risks, and draft technical solutions.
  • Collaborating with other teams on system-wide parts like platform tooling, common libraries, integrations, etc.
  • Shaping the technical organization by being a go-to person for technical decisions that affect multiple teams.
  • Being a technical ambassador for Hindawi.

What We Look For

• Excellent knowledge of computer science concepts and proven experience & expertise with (micro)services and web application development, regardless of the languages or frameworks used.
• Take ownership over the whole component/product/project’s lifecycle, including being involved in the design phase and performing operational tasks such as deployments and monitoring.
• Work with the product team to define requirements, identify risks, and draft technical solutions.
• In addition to technical chops, we aim for someone used to working in a team, who is ecstatic about sharing their knowledge, teaching and mentoring their peers, and understanding the value in others being heard.
• Willingness to learn new skills and technologies. We use JavaScript frameworks like (Node, Express, NestJS, React, GraphQL, Typescript, and AWS). Most of our colleagues are what’s known in the industry as T-Shaped developers. They are well-versed on either the backend or frontend and knowledgeable enough on the other areas to be able to get the job done. Being full-stack is not a requirement from day one but we as a company are committed to helping you learn what’s needed to get the job done with ease.

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