Senior NodeJS Engineer

Open Commerce is a technology suite that enables marketing professionals in the fuel&convenience industry to create real-time, hyper-personalized offers and customer interactions across a variety of channels (mobile, web, SMS and in-person) to drive customer behaviour toward a desired goal.

Our technology bridges financial payment providers, retail fuel pump technology, and customer experience by wrapping low-level standards-compliant integrations with powerful software abstractions on an ultra-modern software platform. Our platform services and applications are built using a broad swath of technologies (Typescript, Node.js, Ruby, React, and others), interconnected via GraphQL and RabbitMQ, and run in AWS using Terraform, Helm and Kubernetes (via EKS)

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Your primary responsibility as a Senior Software Engineer on PAR Retail’s expanding product engineering team is to build and grow our Open Commerce enterprise software-as-a-service platform. On the Open Commerce team, we embrace a deeply collaborative software product development process where engineering, design, and product collaborate to shape and ship new functionality.

RESPONSIBILITIES + ACTIVITIES:

• Build TypeScript-based backend services to support micro-service architecture;
• Design, implement, and document GraphQL and RESTful APIs used by our applications and services;
• Take a major role in the decision-making of service-oriented architecture;
• Be ready to follow coding standards and company agreements, be ready to propose new coding standards and improvements for further discussion and implementation;
• Write code and cover it with automated tests to increase the overall project’s code coverage;
• Find, document, and resolve the technical debt (we constantly working on resolving the tech debt);
• Be responsible for taking ownership of developing the most important services of the project;
• Conduct team code reviews;
• Work with a team of Developers, Designers and Product Managers to deliver projects and improve internal processes.

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS YOU’LL NEED:

• Deep knowledge of TypeScript and Node.js;
• At least 5 years of Backend development experience;
• At least 2 years of experience with distributed systems and microservices;
• Experience with GraphQL (Apollo) and TypeORM, Nest.js;
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis);
• Basic knowledge of Docker, Docker Compose;
• Excellent teamwork skills with an ability to get the work done with minimal supervision;
• Solution-focused thinking and an ownership mindset. and an ownership mindset