Backend Engineer - Node.js

Role Summary

We’re looking for a collaborative and dedicated person to work on the back-end development of our web applications. We’re on a mission to improve clinical trials and the web apps are the key product to achieve this, including both patient-facing and professional applications.

As a key member of a small team, you’ll need to be comfortable taking the initiative and seeking out ways to improve the product. The results of your work will be in the hands of patients, nurses and others in clinical trials. We’re looking for someone who will seize the opportunity to make their lives better, and improve people’s health by helping to get new medicines to market faster.

As well as being a key member of the engineering team you will also work closely with everyone in the company to bring features from initial ideas through to production. As we look to grow the company there is a lot of potential for you to grow with us, taking on new responsibilities such as team leadership.

How we work

The engineers at Stitch work as a single cross-functional team, collaborating closely with the product manager, designer and others across the company. We operate on two-week sprints with a release at the end of each sprint, plus extra releases as necessary. Tasks are tracked in Jira, with GitHub for source code management and CI/CD processes.

What you’ll do

• Lead development of new back-end features for the Stitch web applications
• Work with others across the business to scope and plan new features
• Set and maintain high standards in code quality
• Ensure comprehensive test coverage is achieved and maintained
• Introduce and champion best practices
• Monitor reliability and performance of systems in production

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years experience of software development in technical teams
• Minimum 2 years experience of developing Node.js applications for production use
• Strong Typescript knowledge and experience Experience leading the development of new products or features
• Experience with one or more Typescript testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Playwright)
• Experience developing and deploying systems in AWS or other cloud environments
• Strong understanding of at least one database technology
• A strong commitment to writing clean, readable, well-tested and reusable code
• Excellent communication skills and enjoys working with others
• Self-motivated and independent work style

Nice to have

• Experience developing systems for data processing and analysis
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL database technologies
• Understanding of GDPR or other data privacy regulations
• GraphQL/Apollo
• Python
• Next.js/React

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