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Backend Engineer (Node.js)
Summary
As a Backend Engineer (Node.js) at Deel, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and optimize scalable, high-performance systems and APIs, leveraging your expertise in Node.js, SQL, and system architecture to deliver exceptional, customer-centric solutions in a remote-first environment.
Benefits
Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets them where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all.
- • Provided computer equipment tailored to your role
- • Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
- • Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
- • The flexibility of remote work, including WeWork access where available
Responsibilities
Collaborate in a Cross-Functional Team:
- • Work closely with Frontend Engineers, Product Teams, Designers, and QA professionals to create seamless experiences.
Participate in Product Planning:
- • From discovery to deployment, we value your input throughout all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle
Develop and Enhance Features:
- • Collaborate to develop robust new features, APIs, and continuously improve our industry-leading products. Help find and fix bugs at "Deel Speed."
Provide an Exceptional, Customer-Centric Experience:
- • Ensure top-tier products and services through quality engineering and attentive, customer-focused development.
Required Skills
Excel in Application Development:
- • You thrive in designing, coding, testing, and maintaining applications using the tech stack mentioned above.
Thrive in Remote Collaboration:
- • Excel in a remote-first environment with proactive communication and strong asynchronous collaboration skills to ensure alignment and effective teamwork. You’ve successfully worked in distributed teams
Blending Autonomy and Collaboration:
- • You take ownership of projects while excelling in team environments, driving shared success.
Communicate Complex Ideas Easily:
- • You can clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Solve Problems with Optimism:
- • You’re passionate about solving customer problems with your coding superpowers, and approach challenges with Default Optimism whilst maintaining a balanced perspective
Business-Focused Development:
- • You take a business-focused approach to software development, with a keen eye on delivering high-value outcomes for our clients.
Genuine Care:
- • You embody our core value of Genuine Care, understanding how your work impacts our customers.
Qualifications
Expertise in Backend Development:
- • Strong proficiency in Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript best practices, along with experience in at least one other server-side language.
Database Mastery:
- • You're a SQL guru, particularly with PostgreSQL, handling query optimization, data migrations, and database modeling.
Solid Grasp of OOP and Design Patterns:
- • Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns, with experience in building and extending classes
Scalability Focus:
- • Experience in designing systems for scalability, ensuring they manage rapid growth and increasing demands efficiently.
High-Volume Performance:
- • Proven expertise in optimizing systems for large transaction volumes, handling concurrency, idempotency, and performance under load.
API Development:
- • Skilled in building APIs, including input validation, JWT tokens, and ensuring security & scalability through queue-based systems.
Experience:
- • at least 4 years of experience as a Software Engineer.
Additional Information and Instructions
Extra brownie points if you:
- • Have SaaS experience; experience with SaaS products running 24/7 on major cloud vendors.
- • Familiar with Serverless Architecture; experience with serverless architecture on AWS.
- • Understand FinTech; knowledge of the Fintech Industry and its unique challenges
About Deel
Deel and our family of growing companies are made up of global teams dedicated to helping businesses hire anyone, anywhere, easily. The team comprises over three thousand self-driven individuals spanning over 100 countries, and our unified yet diverse culture keeps us continually learning and innovating the platform and products for customers. Companies should be able to hire the best talent anywhere in the world, so we are building the best platform to make that a reality. Our market-leading technology, expertise, and global team are crucial to the platform’s success. We deliver the best products and features in our space, enabling millions of jobs worldwide and connecting the global workforce with the best companies and opportunities.
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Job Overview
Title
Backend Engineer (Node.js)
Company
DeelLocation
Latin America & the CaribbeanSalary
Not Disclosed
Work Style
RemoteContract
Permanent
Experience
Mid-Level
Education
No Formal Education Required
Category
Web, Mobile & Software DevSector
Private
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