We are hiring a Lead Back-End Developer, to lead, develop and deliver
the Company technology stack and platform components to enable
accelerated development of our company, providing technical leadership
and expertise from idea to exit. You will need to be passionate about
creating clean, beautiful, well-crafted, maintainable code and have
strong experience working on UI/UX and user-focussed design.
As
our Lead Back-End Developer, you will help Networkingup break new
ground, create and test new concepts to accelerate our growth. You will
play a leading role in establishing one of the most innovative business
units within the corporation.
You will be part of a
collaborative team of technical and design specialists, to develop the
full technology stack for Networkingup, its activities and range of
ventures. You’ll be involved across the innovation process, from idea to
MVP, developing alpha and beta products and core components of our
software architecture to make our operations run, run fast and
constantly move forward to accommodate the range of ventures we develop.
You’ll
need flexibility, adaptability and a healthy dose of pragmatism when
providing expert support and advice to our ventures while never slowing
things down. You will build strong relationships with technical partners
as required to accelerate the growth of our ventures. You’ll provide a
supportive environment for our technical talent that prizes innovation,
continual personal improvement and effective product development
methodologies.
You will distill technical ideas into simple
effective plans, working closely with your team of developers, designers
and scientists to drive their execution within the challenges of an
agile startup environment. You will evolve our thinking, and help
identify and develop our capabilities across the back-end, front-end,
UX, as well as machine learning and optimization techniques.
You’ll
have the chance to develop and define the requirements for the core
platform, ensuring Networkingup is a business that is synonymous with
technical excellence and innovation. The choice of technology or
language is continually evolving and it’s up to you to shape and keep
our activities at the forefront of technology.
The importance of a strong corporate culture
Because most of our time we are at the office, that is most than important to take pleasure of it.
We want to implement and create a positive innovation culture in a collaborative environment.
Because
your team is also your core product, we give to our employees all of
the tools to start in the best way an honest relationship.
Our guys
need to forge close working relationships with our leadership team to
meet the need of the organisation. But work has also to be a place where
you could realize yourself. That's why we dearly support our employees
to find their places in the project.
To summarize, we create and nurture a sense of ownership and commitment amongst the engineering team.
Finally
we would rather hire people who have a deep thirst of knowledge. We
support and encourage self-improvement of our employees.
Requirements:
Who we’re looking for
- A technical business builder, a full stack developer with proven business credentials.
- Customer understanding first, blending a technical skill across the stack and design/user thinking
-
Experience defining, developing and implementing major business
systems. Able to launch systems with robustness, stability, scaling, and
security considered.
- A pragmatist who can identify a solution to any problem and likes to be challenged to find them
- You should feel comfortable challenging why we do what we do, and how we do it
- Rigor and candor, bring best practice, operational process to facilitate our activities
- Can-do, positive attitude, proactive approach to problem solving
- Collaborative and non-hierarchical style of working
- Fluent in English, French or Spanish is recommended
- An ability to scale in a way that won’t quash our pace or entrepreneurial spirit
- Fun, social and energized
What type of background you’re from
- Start-up Back-End developer
- Corporate/Agile IT consulting
- Digital agency
What you will be able to demonstrate
- 3 + years of relevant experience, ideally inside a start-up
- Experience designing and directing the production of compelling and innovative digital experiences
- Broad understanding of the concept of minimum viable product, lean start-up and conversion rates
- Experience working in an Agile and Lean design and development
- Strong degree in Computer Science or other related technical discipline
- Strong programming skills and a track record of making things happen
- A passion for building great software that will last (for a long time)
- Proven development of full stack applications, technical architecture design & development
- Proven understanding of OO programming or functional programming (ideally both)
- Java, Node.js, Ruby, PHP, .NET skills
- PHP, Python and djqngo experience
- HTML,CSS, Javascript, jQuery
- Experience with Symfony, Zend (or similar MVC frameworks);
- jQuery, BackboneJS, or other JavaScript frameworks; and supporting technologies
- Experience in modern front end framework, React.js and Angular.js preferred
- Experience working with SQL (PostgreSQL or MySQL preferred), and NoSQL databases (Mongo etc.)
- Experience building RESTful APIs using Java, djqngo, Python, Node.js, Hapi.js preferred
- Experience in Distributed Applications, SOA, Cloud Solutions (Heroku, AWS or Azure)
- Success in building operational/technical teams in a new business
- A natural ability to interface with customers, investors and at a corporate board level
- Experience developing and using Web Services