Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

You’ll be working within an international group of teams which span from the US till India. This group is responsible for building our Client Delivery Framework which is the foundation for all our future web applications at Nielsen. Your specific team will be responsible to build services and UIs to support our complex entitlement needs for our current and future web applications.

As a Software Engineer you will be responsible for the system to work behind the scenes. Your role will be to integrate the application with all required systems and services and provide clean and easy to use API for the frontend part of the system.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with frontend developers to design and develop functional, robust APIs to support internal and customer needs

• Write unit, integration and end to end tests, and develop automation tools for daily tasks

• Develop high quality, well documented, and efficient code

• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems in the cloud

• Optimize internal and external applications for performance and scalability

• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met, and write both unit and integration tests

• Communicate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, and other developers regarding progress on long-term technology roadmap

• Recommend systems solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchased alternatives

Key Skills

• Domain Expertise

• 4-6 years of advanced experience as a backend developer for backend APIs for web applications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or Engineering

• Technical Skills

• Advanced experience writing and utilizing micro services oriented RESTful APIs and performance tuning large scale apps

• Advanced experience with SQL database systems (e.g. MySQL, Oracle), NoSQL experience is a plus (e.g. MongoDB, Couchbase, etc.)

• Advanced experience in NodeJS and TypeScript for backend development

• Experience with NestJS (optional but advantageous) for scalable server-side applications

• Advanced experience to write effective automated unit, integration, API tests and End to End Tests with ephemeral environments

• Intermediate experience with fully automated CI/CD workflows

• Deep knowledge of Object-Oriented programing and engineering principles like SOLID

• Intermediate experience with Cloud principles and technologies like AWS, Docker, K8s

• Experience integrating with JavaScript frameworks, such as React, Angular JS, etc… is a plus

• Nice to have knowledge of immutable infrastructure, infrastructure automation and provisioning tools

• Mindset and attributes

• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align organization on decisions

• Sound problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply

• Utilizes team collaboration to create innovative solutions efficiently