Backend Engineer

We are looking for a backend engineer to join the engineering team at ASB. As a backend engineer at ASB, you’ll have the opportunity to architect and build performant and impactful applications for our customers.

What you’ll do

You’ll work with leadership and product managers to provide an engineering perspective to the evolution of the product requirements and backlog

You’ll architect, design and write code for RESTful APIs to be consumed by frontend and mobile engineers.

You’ll manage server infrastructure to ensure maximum uptime, optimal performance and allocation of server resources

You’ll own the entire process of deploying your code to staging and production servers. You’ll take a test driven approach to development ensuring high coverage at all times.

What’s required

You have demonstrable experience with Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB/MySQL/ Postgres, and have used them to build applications that are currently being used today.

You have worked with Platform as a Service technologies such as Heroku or AWS and are able to use them to monitor, manage or scale servers as required.

You have knowledge of architectural patterns and have a framework for deciding what patterns and technologies are best suited for the task at hand.

You are familiar with RESTful API conventions and adhere to them when designing and building APIs

You have a sense of responsibility to our customers. You hold yourself accountable to delivering quality work on time. You don’t need to be micromanaged.

You write code that is clean, properly architected, maintainable and scaleable.