Job description

As a technical expert at Cardata you’ll take a hands-on approach to architecting and coding scalable front-end and back-end solutions, ensuring a world-class user experience.

As a Staff Engineer and key member of our Platform Team, you’ll play a critical role in designing, architecting and implementing our new, customizable platform. With your full-stack expertise—especially in relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)—you’ll guide key decisions on database best practices and platform-to-platform migration strategies.

At Cardata, we foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation. Our Engineering Team thrives on shared knowledge and product ownership, engaging in pair programming, Lunch & Learn sessions, and architecture discussions. We are a highly engaged team dedicated to improving core processes, driving product evolution, and achieving goals collaboratively. 🚀

What You'll Be Doing

Help establish best practices and design patterns for our new platform

Lead the design of a migration strategy to move users from our legacy platform to our new one

Design, develop, test, and maintain new features of the platform

Help lead unit test initiatives by instilling high coverage amongst code bases

Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that adheres to best practices and standards

Collaborate with other members of the development team, including product managers and other engineers, to define requirements, design solutions, and implement features

Help set high coding standards by reviewing RFC documents, defining standards, and through PR reviews🏆

Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development, and share knowledge with the team📚

Continuously improve our best practices, standards, tooling, and methodologies to ensure software quality, efficiency, and maintainability

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, helping them to develop their skills and grow as professionals

Able to break down significant project goals into smaller achievable steps and hit milestones

What You'll Bring

8 to 12 years of software development experience building highly reliable, scalable software solutions

Experience with TypeScript, React, NextJS, and NestJS 💻

Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL🗄️

Experience with TDD or unit testing, bonus using JEST

Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and CI/CD deployment processes ⚡

Ability to thrive in a dynamic, ambiguous environment, managing multiple priorities, tackling complex technical challenges, and delivering high-quality results

Strong time management, with an aptitude for scoping projects and developing accurate timelines⏳

Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, translate complex concepts into digestible formats and manage expectations

Demonstrated success managing development projects end-to-end with significant ownership over technical decision-making

Experience building applications with AWS, using services such as SNS/SQS, EC2, Lambda

Nice to Have

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or an equivalent educational experience

Required profile