If you like challenges and enjoy working in a fast paced
environment with great talented people this is your opportunity. At
Smadex we are looking for a bright NodeJS Engineer with experience
developing RESTful APIs that are used/consumed by thousands of users
around the globe.
Smadex is one of the biggest Ad Tech companies in Europe and one
of the fastest growing in the world. The Ad Tech industry handles more
than 500k requests per second and storing TBs of data on a daily basis.
To keep up with such challenge, we require the most talented people to
work together and build a robust platform based on cutting edge
technologies. Smadex was recently acquired by Headway, a global and
data-driven media buying company with offices in America, Europe and
Southeast Asia. Their integrated product combines industry expertise and
advanced technology to deliver the top performing marketing and
advertising solutions in the industry. Headway is part of Entravision, a
public media company based in the US.
We are in the middle of a re-engineering process of our API, so
it’s a great opportunity for our new team member to engage with a
project from the very beginning, participating not only in the
development process but also in the architectural design and definition.
Minimum technical skills:
- Proficiency in building server-side applications in Javascript
- 2+ years of relevant experience in Node.js
- Experience designing services and REST APIs
- Knowledgeable about web protocol, application servers and web servers
- Experience with relational databases ( MySQL or PostgreSQL ), defining and creating relational schemas and changes
- Used to cache services like Memcached and Redis
- Experience with automated tests
- Used to Linux environments
- Proficiency in Github
- Able to write clear high-quality, standardised and usable code
- Capacity to recognize optimizable code
Desirable technical skills:
- Experience managing web architectures within AWS ( EC2, Load
Balancers, RDS, Elasticache, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudSearch,
S3, CodeDeploy, etc. )
- Used to CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Codeship, etc.
- Experience with performance and benchmark tests of APIs
- Experience of microservice based architectures
- Experience working with modern NodeJS frameworks like AdonisJS, Loopback, Koa, etc
Other skills:
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and sense of accountability
- Adding proactive and positive energy to our rapidly growing company
- Structured and analytical
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Able to mentor less experienced team members
- Detail oriented, well organized, and ability to multi-task in a results oriented business environment
- Comfortable balancing trade-offs between technical, analytical and product needs
What's in it for you:
Competitive
salary, opportunity to have a real impact in one of the hottest
startups in Barcelona and Europe, flexible working hours, exceptional
work environment with friendly peeps, opportunity to be part of an agile
team with a strong focus on innovation and technology, team building
events, continuous development of your knowledge about the industry, the
kind of knowledge that Google and Facebook are constantly looking for!