Junior Backend Engineer
Lush Handmade Cosmetics is a global enterprise focused on producing creative and indulgent cosmetics and bath products. As a Junior Backend Engineer, you will contribute to backend services and tooling that support the Global business, developing custom software and collaborating with various teams to solve challenges in delivering scalable technology worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Write clear, maintainable code that will scale across projects and distributed development teams
- Collaborate with engineers, QAs, designers, and partners to solve interesting and challenging problems for delivering scalable technology worldwide
- Refactor, review and maintain existing enterprise application code bases ensuring scalability, performance and security are taken into consideration, building new features to support the growth of global business
- Actively research and implement innovative techniques and features to enhance the development process
Skills
- TypeScript development experience, proficient in the native libraries and able to demonstrate a genuine interest in TypeScript coding philosophy and practices
- Able to translate product or business requirements into technological initiatives
- Able to autonomously debug and resolve issues
- Comfortable writing SQL queries
- Have a very good working knowledge of git
- Have experience building web applications using a web framework like Express
- Have working experience of application packaging and deployment
- Have experience building GraphQL APIs with Apollo federated GraphQL or Hive Gateway experience as a bonus
- Some knowledge of Docker would be ideal
Benefits
- 10% Employee Owned
- Flexible, fluid, supportive, and authentic working style
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