Sr. Full Stack Developer

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the full development life cycle of features and products in our SaaS Platform aiming to meet or exceed customer SLAs.

• Participate in the design, development and implementation of large-scale distributed systems using cloud-native principles and technologies.

• Participate in the design, development and implementation of applications and services able to process large volumes of data, focusing on security, scalability, latency, and resiliency.

• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain user centric, fast and reactive interfaces using modern web technologies.

• Design, develop, test, deploy and maintain fast, secure, scalable and highly available backend services in the public cloud (GCP) leveraging modern cloud-native technologies, microservices and DevSecOps best practices.

• Write scalable, performant, readable and tested code following standards and best coding practices.

• Develop test strategies, use automation frameworks, write unit/functional tests to drive up code coverage and automation metrics.

• Participate in code reviews and provide meaningful feedback that helps other developers to build better solutions.

• Present your own designs to other development teams, engineering or stakeholders and review designs of others.

• Contribute relevant, clean, concise and quality documentation to SproutLoud's knowledge base to support/increase information sharing within the organization.

• Learn about SproutLoud’s business, master our development process, culture and code base, then improve it.

• Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams.

• Collaborate with the interna/external stakeholder and product team to gather functional and non-functional requirements and identify the business requirements.

• Work closely with product owners and a wide variety of stakeholders to analyze and break down large requirements into small, simple, workable deliverables.

• Ability to work in a fast paced environment and deliver incremental value iteratively and continuously.

• Take responsibility and ownership of product timelines and deliverables.

• Mentor others in development technologies, tools, and processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, related field, or equivalent experience

• 6+ years of active engineering experience in a complex environment and/or comparable experience such as successful engineering and deployment of enterprise-grade technology assets in an agile product environment

• 6+ years of hands on experience with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

• 6+ years of hands on experience with Object Oriented Programing and OO Design patterns

• 6+ years of hands on experience with web development frameworks

• 6+ years of hands on experience with RDBMS

• 4+ years of hands on experience with modern front-end frameworks

• Expertise in Data structures and Algorithms.

• Expertise in web principles, standards and fundamental technologies.

• Proficiency in various layers, including application, presentation, network, and data layers.

• Proficiency designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available full-stack solutions.

• Proficiency on RDBMS and NoSQL databases

• Proficiency consuming web services (REST, SOAP) and integrating with third-party systems.

• Proficiency designing, developing, testing and publishing RESTful services using OpenAPI.

• Proficiency in public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc). Emphasis on Google Cloud Platform.

• Proficiency in Test Driven Development (TDD) or experience with automated testing including unit and functional testing.

• Proficiency in Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and DevSecOps best practices.

• Competency on OWASP security principles, understanding accessibility, and security compliance.

• Competency on Unix and command line tools.

• Competency on UML or C4 models.

• Competency on System Design, Domain Driven Design and Microservices architecture.

• Competency on containers (Docker) or Kubernetes.

• Competency on user authentication, authorization, including OAuth 2, OpenID Connect, SAML 2, Single Sign-On (SSO), and IAM

• Competency on the twelve-factor methodology for building SaaS apps.

• Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies

• A passion for solving problems and providing workable solutions while demonstrating the flexibility to learn new technologies that meet business needs.

• Strong communication skills (English) as well as experience in mentoring and educating your peers.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills :

• Expertise in one or more Object Oriented Programming languages such as Java, PHP, C++, C#, Python, Ruby, etc. Emphasis on Java, PHP and Python.

• Expertise in web fundamental technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JSON, XML, AJAX, HTTP.

• Expertise in one or more JavaScript Frameworks such as jQuery or Ext.

• Expertise in one or more web development frameworks such as Zend, Laravel, Lumen, Symfony, Spring, Flask, etc. Emphasis on Zend, Laravel and Spring.

• Expertise in one or more front-end frameworks such as AngularJS, React, Vue.js. Emphasis on Vue.js.

• Expertise in one or more Template Engine/Processors such as Smarty, Blade, Twig, Mustache, Handlebards, etc. Emphasis on Smarty and Twig.

• Expertise in one or more testing frameworks such as PHPUnit, JUnit, Codeception, Jest, Cypress, Mocha, Chai. Emphasis on PHPUnit, JUnit, Codeception or Jest.

• Proficiency in SQL/PLSQL, schema design, and one or more RDBMS such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, etc. Emphasis on PostgreSQL.

• Proficiency in one or more Version Control Systems such as Git, SVN, CVS, Team Foundation. Emphasis on Git.

• Proficiency in one or more modern CSS Frameworks such as Bootstrap, Foundation, Bulma, Materialize CSS. Emphasis on Bootstrap.

• Proficiency in one or more modern CSS precompilers such as Less or Sass.

• Proficiency in full-stack observability principles (tracing, metrics, logging) and one or more observability tools such as Apache Skywalking, Prometheus, Grafana, Graylog, and StackDriver.

• Proficiency in one or more testing, debugging and optimization tools such as JMeter, Postman, Developer Tools, YSlow, HTTPWatch, etc.

• Competency in distributed or NoSQL databases such as CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Couchbase, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.

• Competency developing Event-Driven apps using message brokers such as Apache Kafka, Pulsar. Emphasis on Apache Kafka.

It’s a plus if you have any of the following skills:

• Experience developing, publishing and running microservices .

• Experience with Service Mesh such as Istio or LinkerD. Emphasis on Istio.

• Experience with API management tools such as KrakenD, APIGee, Kong, etc. Emphasis on KrakenD.