Senior Fullstack Engineer (JS/TS Stack)
We are looking for awesome engineers, to join our excellent team. Someone who is wanting to learn and utilise new technologies, with their peers.
Pickatale is an innovative EdTech Start Up that is changing the landscape of the e-book market. We are looking to scale up their engineering capabilities by bringing on skilled and proactive Senior Fullstack Developers. Based in the EU/UK, the role can be performed fully remote anywhere in the EU or UK.
You will be taking on the role of building new features, leading and guiding developers and ensuring best development practices are used within the team. You will also be responsible for ensuring technical debt is kept to a minimum.
This role requires you to complete a short exercise prior to the interview stage. We’ll shortlist candidates to complete the exercise.
There is an on-call rotation for out-of-hours support. Joining the rotation is compensated and completely optional.
Experience with the following responsibilities is essential for this position:
- Support our clients and deliver team sprint goals.
- Perform Senior level JS/TS development duties to deliver working software frequently (at the end of every other sprint at the very latest)
- Support your fellow team members by mentoring junior staff, making architectural decisions, and implementing process changes within the team.
- Active involvement in process development and improvement.
- Consult with management and advise the client on technical requirements and provide accurate expectations on delivery times.
- Maintain task boards and time-tracking tools.
- Communicate potential technical challenges in advance.
- Help develop our internal practices during retrospectives.
- Ability to translate commercial goals into cost appropriate solutions.
- Working with and refactoring legacy code and systems.
Skills Required:
- Extensive knowledge in React / Next.js
- Extensive knowledge in Node.js / NestJS
- Solid understanding of TDD
- Solid understanding of Microservices with a good understanding of when to use Microservice architecture and when not to use it.
- Postgres Databases
The following are tasks you may wish to get involved in:
- Get involved in planning social events.
- Organise and/or attend user testing sessions
Nice to have experience:
- Experience in high growth start-up/scale-ups
- AWS Cloud Infrastructure
- Kubernetes Experience
- Experience in CI/CD
- Experience using Jira.
- MongoDB / Atlas
- Data Warehouse (Snowflake or similar)
- Event Driven Development
- AI Development
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