Backend Developer

The digital landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and Era Baru remains on the cutting edge with innovative digital solutions. We’re looking for a skilled back-end developer to join our team of creators who are consistently raising the bar for user experience. Working behind the scenes, the ideal candidate will have a unique blend of technical expertise, insatiable curiosity, and analytical mindset. This person should be comfortable working independently as well as with a team in the design and development of mission-critical websites, applications, and layers of infrastructure. Experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Git, ExpressJS or SQL/MongoDB is helpful to succeed quickly in this role. The back-end developer will have an immediate effect on our business success as well as the success of our clients. Objectives of this role -Communicate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, and other developers regarding progress on long-term technology roadmap -Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and to ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs -Develop and oversee testing schedules in client server environment, addressing various browsers and devices to ensure that content is displayed as intended -Produce quality code, raising the bar for team performance and speed -Recommend systems solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchased alternatives Responsibilities -Write code and tests, build prototypes, resolve issues, and profile and analyze bottlenecks -Design robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients -Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems in the cloud -Optimize web applications for performance and scalability -Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met, and allow for regression Required skills and qualifications -Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and web design -Experience in writing highly secure web applications -Experience with core AWS web-enabling technologies -Growth mindset that challenges the status quo and focuses on outside-the-box ideas and solutions Preferred skills and qualifications -Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science -Experience in designing RESTful APIs, specifically for mobile apps -Experience in leading a team