Backend Developer ExpressJS at Kinsei Talent

Job Description:

Our client is a leading NFT platform for Luxury brands. They are convinced that the progressive migration of our social life to the Metaverse will only accelerate. In an era of conscious consumerism, and overall saturation, the Metaverse opens vast opportunities for Luxury Brands to develop a new business segment around digital assets and connect with an entire new generation of users.

They are on a mission to help Brands enter this new market, while providing fans with a reference marketplace to purchase, trade, and showcase NFTs issued by Luxury brands. In essence, our client sits at the intersection of Luxury, and 3 generation-defining trends: gaming, blockchain and metaverse.

Our client was formed in July 2021 by a team of serial entrepreneurs with deep backgrounds in crypto and luxury. We raised a 2.2m seed round in August from several venture capital investors, including Tioga Capital, White Star, Indico Capital, Shilling, as well as prominent business angels such as Formula E champion Félix da Costa. The main office is incorporated in Portugal, with most of our team located in the Lisbon / Cascais area. But we also have team members working from the US, France and Switzerland - we are a remote-first company.

They are looking for talented and motivated people who are willing to support the company structure for growth and success while keeping growing their own skills.

The Backend Developer will be part of the Engineering Team.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of applications and domains.
• Collaborate with the engineering teams to align and communicate the team's development and delivery process. 
• Influence the decision towards a decentralised microservice architecture of the backend services. 
• Deliver high-quality software features that meet coding and design patterns best practices. 
• Follow DevOps best practices including continuous integration and unit testing, You build it, you ship it. 
• Contribute to setting the engineering best practices in writing maintainable and scalable code and influencing the team decisions. 
• Emphasize on the team's operational excellence through automation and relevant operational best practices. 
• Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify the technical requirements independently, assessing development estimates and design options

Your mission:

• Create new solutions and components that are meant to answer a global scale
• Help develop a scalable and sustainable system throughout all our web and mobile products.
• Contribute to the development of a Developers Cookbook using diagrams and reusable modules in order to create generic components.
• Contribute to the update and maturity of our teams software development process

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Proven working experience in backend development for at least 4 years
• You have experience in NodeJS including ExpressJS framework and related technologies.
• You have experience with relational databases e.g. Postgres
• You have experience with building APIs e.g. GraphQL architecture
• You have experience with asynchronous communication.
• You are ideally familiar with agile methodologies, e.g. SCRUM or KANBAN
• Strong understanding of web technology concepts: HTTP, HTML, CSS, Web APIs, etc
• Strong understanding of information security concepts and concerns: such as CORS, CSP, CSRF, XSS, etc.
• Design and business acumen: You understand requirements, whether you're working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to details leads to delightful user experience.
  
  
• You are also comfortable driving development from a sketch to a polished product. You are adept at communicating and collaborating effectively with others, promoting your ideas as well as being humble when you may be wrong.
• You enjoy getting involved with every stage of the software development lifecycle.
• You have previous experience working in a Test Driven environment and understand the benefits.
• You are comfortable pair programming and working in a trunk-based development environment; practicing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• You see the value in developers owning production software and view failure as a chance to learn.
• Fluency in English is mandatory, fluency in Portuguese and/or French is a plus.
• Ideal candidates will have prior experience handling cryptocurrencies and collecting NFTs.
• Start-up stage so the ideal candidate must be adaptable to start-up environments, with a roll-up your sleeves mentality. Team-spirit, positive attitude and seeing solutions rather than problems are a must!

We would also appreciate if you have:

• Dev-ops experience is a big plus (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

• Solid Infrastructure Experience is a big plus (AWS & DevOps)

• Familiarity with Test-driven development is a plus

• Web3 Integration and experience with smart contracts

• Passionate about clean and well-documented code

• You have experience creating experimentation-heavy, content-driven websites where performance and usability matter most

• You have experience building large-scale, device-responsive websites that are long-lived and have an app-like feel