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As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll build innovative applications, provide consulting services, and lead teams while ensuring code quality and performance.
About us
Appnovation is a global, full-service digital partner that combines Strategy, Experience & Design, Engineering and Managed Services. We build digital solutions that deliver real impact today and serve as foundations for future growth. Bold ambition. Practical action. Endless possibilities.
About the Role
Technology is foundational to all of Appnovation’s offerings, from consulting to digital innovation, to digital product and service creation. The technology department is focused on delivering software solutions that enable rich consumer experiences, from mobile and web applications to advanced analytics and machine learning, to content and engagement management service enablement platforms. Inherent throughout our tech capabilities is deep expertise in the Software Development Life Cycle, a drive for creativity, a passion for the craft, and collaboration with other disciplines - all foundational ingredients in successful digital experiences and client partnerships.As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will join a highly motivated and experienced team, building web and mobile applications as well as providing strategy consulting for Appnovation’s clients. We are looking for people who can bring a strong, consulting and solution focused mindset and contribute to architectural decisions, best practices and get things done.
Who You Are
- You think about how to scale, automate and operate, not just how to build a solution to an immediate problem
- You understand lean thinking
- You set high standards for code quality, performance/scalability and security and seek continuous improvement
- You have led a team of junior developers and coached them
- You have solid analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
- You have customer first mindset and a devotion to customer service
- You engage and build positive internal and external client relationships, while managing multiple initiatives, often with competing priorities
- You have strong self-initiative, passion, interpersonal, oral and written communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work, influence and make an impact in a cross-functional environment with all levels of the organization
- You are responsive and thrive in a fast-paced diverse high-performance environment with rapidly changing business needs
- You actively seek out things outside your comfort zone with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
- You have prior experience in consulting.
Qualification
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, or equivalent
- 5+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, web and/or mobile development experience.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript for backend development.
- Expert knowledge of AWS Serverless architecture, specifically AWS SAM & AWS Lambda.
- Experience with Amazon Cognito for user authentication and management.
- Experience with Amazon SNS for messaging services.
- Strong experience with RDBMS, specifically PostgreSQL.
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful API endpoints to support mobile applications.
- Specific experience integrating with the WhatsApp Business API
- Proven ability to create and manage Webhooks for handling real-time data and third-party communications.
- Experience with unit testing and TDD
- Strong understanding and experience with DevOps principles, processes and tools (eg. Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Travis CI)
- Experience with Cloud Computing and Serverless Architecture, preferably AWS.
- Understanding of agile principles and methodologies.
Nice to Have
- Understanding of Frontend technologies, specifically React Native and Expo, to better collaborate with mobile developers.
- Experience with React, Angular, Express, Node
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for serverless deployments.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Previous experience in a consulting environment.
What Appnovation Offers
- Challenging and rewarding work with real impact
- Growth opportunities for personal and professional development
- Exposure to exciting projects and high-profile clients
- Supportive work environment with access to company leaders.
Thank you for your interest in a career with Appnovation Technologies! Please note that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
At Appnovation, we recognize that diverse teams are the strongest teams. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is not only something that we embrace - we celebrate it! We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we encourage applicants from all backgrounds, lived experiences and industries to apply. Come join us at Appnovation, and learn more about how we stay true to our company values as we build better lives through better digital.
Accommodations are available upon request throughout the recruitment process.
Accommodations are available upon request throughout the recruitment process.
Top Skills
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Sns
Angular
Aws Lambda
Aws Sam
Aws Serverless
Bitbucket
CloudFormation
DevOps
Expo
Git
Jenkins
Node.js
Postgres
React
React Native
Restful Api
Terraform
Travis Ci
Typescript
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