Junior Backend Engineer

Lush Handmade Cosmetics is a global enterprise focused on creating indulgent cosmetics and bath products. They are seeking a Junior Backend Engineer to contribute to backend services and tooling that support the global business, including developing custom software and integrating third-party solutions.

Responsibilities

• Write clear, maintainable code that will scale across projects and distributed development teams
• Collaborate with engineers, QAs, designers, and partners to solve interesting and challenging problems for delivering scalable technology worldwide
• Refactor, review and maintain existing enterprise application code bases ensuring scalability, performance and security are taken into consideration, building new features to support the growth of global business
• Actively research and implement innovative techniques and features to enhance the development process

Skills

• TypeScript development experience, proficient in the native libraries and able to demonstrate a genuine interest in TypeScript coding philosophy and practices
• Able to translate product or business requirements into technological initiatives
• Able to autonomously debug and resolve issues
• Comfortable writing SQL queries
• Have a very good working knowledge of git
• Have experience building web applications using a web framework like Express
• Have experience building GraphQL APIs with Apollo federated GraphQL or Hive Gateway experience as a bonus
• Have working experience of application packaging and deployment
• Some knowledge of Docker would be ideal

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