Location: Remote (Must be able to work EST timezone)
Department: Engineering
Hours: Full-time
Employment: B2B Contract
About YLD:
Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.
About the role:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You'll be proficient at problem-solving and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You'll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:
Crafting excellent products! As a Full Stack Engineer, you will be building new features that meet the needs of our clients' customers, as well as improving their Digital Platform;
Continuously delivering changes to products, as our client is moving to a full CI/CD model;
Working closely with your team, regularly collaborating on engineering initiatives, to continually push yourselves to be better;
Participating in regular show and tells to promote your work to both your department and the wider company;
Joining our clients' internal events, including meeting external speakers, going to quiz nights, etc.
You'll have the following skills and experience:
Proven commercial experience of working with React and Node;
Experienced in JavaScript, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures and ES6;
Experience with GraphQL;
Experience in distributed version control systems (e.g. Git);
Experience in databases (both relational and schema-less);
A strong focus on continuous integration and delivery;
Strong focus in TDD;
Building high-performance and scalable applications;
Good understanding of the design and implementation of RESTful web services;
Familiarity with performance monitoring tools;
You can keep a cool head when debugging production issues.
You'll be:
Self-motivated, proactive and always looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You'll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
Detail oriented;
Problem-solving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs;
Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
Analytical and problem-solving oriented;
A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.
Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:
1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins);
Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30).
We're an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don't discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. Likewise, we also offer a remote-first working environment, meaning that flexible working and work-life balance come as standard for all employees.
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