Appriffy

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Lead a software development project and manage software development from inception to delivery. 
• Be both a highly technical hands-on coder and effective at mentorship. 
• Coach and mentor team members for skill development and experience.
• Establish goals and objectives for the team that aligns with the overall roadmap and delivery schedules. 
• Works to increase team efficiency and effectiveness in order to achieve long term goals. 
• Participates in hiring of new team members. 
• Performs any HR related tasks. 
• Analyze performance and develop improvements to performance of web application. 
• Perform upgrades to 3rd party libraries and tools used by the web application. 
• Implement new web application software features and products following best practices such as authoring of unit tests, writing maintainable code, applying established patterns and algorithms. 
• Specialize in client or server-side web application development as a member of a project team. Preference for familiarity with the full technical stack. 
• Develop software to support internal initiatives, tools, update framework and application functionality. 
• Work as part of an Agile SCRUM team in the planning, scoping, estimation and execution of technical solutions. 
• Work within a wide range of new and legacy code and technologies in a mature codebase • Other duties as assigned.  

To be considered for and to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  

Qualifications include: 

• 7+ years for experience in developing highly scalable, reliable, secure web applications.
• Experience with Javascript (preferably TypeScript), Node.js and React.js.
• Experience or willingness with developing serverless architecture.
• Experience designing data persistence and caching concepts using both SQL and NoSQL DBMS (MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.)
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.
• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.
• Experience owning the responsibility for delivering frontend and backend work as well as coordinating with QA, Design, and PM.
• Willingness to accept responsibility not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Enjoy being part of a highly collaborative, remote-friendly environment.
• One year of experience using AWS services, such as Lambda, SES, SQS, EC2, RDS, ELB’s and have knowledge of VPC’s (AWS and/or RightScale knowledge a plus.
• 1years of experience in product or SaaS development.
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks.