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Our client is a renowned digital transformation consulting firm specializing in driving digital initiatives for banks, asset managers, and insurance companies globally. With a strong emphasis on digital innovation, transformation, and expertise in business consulting and technology, they empower financial institutions to accelerate their digital growth and stay ahead of the competition.
Role:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Node.js Developer to join our client's team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Node.js, JavaScript, and database management, with hands-on experience in TypeScript. This role involves developing scalable and highly available RESTful APIs, performance tuning, debugging, and monitoring applications. You will also play a key role in ensuring the quality of our technical and application architecture.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, test, and maintain scalable and highly available RESTful APIs using Node.js.
- Implement and maintain GraphQL APIs.
- Utilize CI/CD principles to manage and troubleshoot issues in a distributed services ecosystem.
- Design and deploy containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Integrate API gateways such as 3Scale.
- Implement Single-Sign-On (SSO) and token-based authentication (REST, JWT, OAuth).
- Work with task/message queues including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin, and Kafka.
- Follow best practices for coding, security, unit testing, and documentation.
- Research and benchmark new technologies against industry standards.
- Ensure the quality of technical and application architecture across the organization.
Requirements:
- Education: Postgraduate degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years of coding experience in Node.js, JavaScript, and databases. At least 1 year of hands-on experience with TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience in performance tuning, debugging, and monitoring applications.
- Practical experience with GraphQL and CI/CD principles.
- Proficiency in containerization technologies, especially Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with API gateway integrations like 3Scale.
- Understanding of SSO and token-based authentication methods.
- Expertise in task/message queue technologies like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin, and Kafka.
