SOFTWARE ENGINEER, BACKEND

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help lead the development of fast, well-tested, and performant code for our web applications and modernizing our application stack. If you are the kind of engineer passionate about developing well-built, reusable components following industry best practices, and love working in a collaborative environment with your product partners and dependency teams, then we want to talk to you. Responsibilities • Collaborate with Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to build and maintain the user experience, accessibility, and development feasibility of the website, applications, and supporting digital spaces. • Design and implement innovative solutions for the presentation of data and content on our websites, mobile apps, and other platforms. • Adhere to JoVE’s brand standards and convey it cohesively across the website, supporting digital spaces and third-party platforms. • Stay updated on the latest standards, changes, and web design and development trends. • Contribute towards engineering excellence in areas like automated unit testing. • Collaborate with key stakeholders on project design and implementation and other developers to maintain standards and create a reusable codebase • Expected to be self-motivated, needing little guidance on completing tasks on time and meeting expectations in terms of requirements • Explain and “whiteboard” complex technical issues to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise • Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation. • Assist in automating deployments to development and other environments. • A Bachelor’s degree • 5+ years of experience building scalable, data-driven backend systems and APIs. • Strong proficiency in server-side programming ( Node.js ,). Familiarity with PHP is an added advantage. • Strong understanding of system design , data architecture , and microservices or modular monoliths . • Skilled in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and integrating with third-party services and external SDKs . • Familiarity with event-driven systems , asynchronous processing , and message queues (Kafka, SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.). • Experienced with SQL and NoSQL databases — e.g., PostgreSQL , MongoDB , Redis ,— with the ability to optimize queries and model complex data relationships. • Solid experience with cloud-native architecture using AWS (serverless, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, etc.) or equivalent platforms. • Demonstrated understanding and implementation of software design principles such as SOLID and DRY with Software as a Service (SaaS ), multi-tenancy application development • Embraces the concepts of Agile Scrum software development and its related collaboration and issue-tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Rally) • Experience working in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CICD) model, including GitHub and CI pipeline automation tools • Ability to triage and resolve incidents and lead incident investigations. • A competitive compensation package. • You will make a direct impact in accelerating science research and education. • Opportunity to work with global teams and in an environment that promotes innovation and collaboration. • Our strong promotion from within culture draws a clear path to advance your career with us.