Software Engineer (Back-End)

Apply Digital is hybrid/remote-friendly. The preferred candidate should be based in LATAM working in hours that align with EST.

We are Apply Digital — a high-growth digital experience agency working with brands like Moderna, Kraft Heinz, and Atlassian. With a focus on transforming possibilities for people, we solve complex problems with well-executed digital solutions that make people's lives easier and help our clients compete.

We’re looking for an experienced back-end-focused software engineer to join our team! You’ll be responsible for the server-side web application logic, modeling data structures, and choosing the right databases for the project requirements. Ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front end will be key as you will also take ownership of integrating the front-end elements into the application.

Our preferred candidate has a basic understanding of front-end technologies, outstanding programming skills, and a great passion for developing high-scalable and innovative applications. Familiarity with agile methodologies is a plus!

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining all server-side components

• Ensuring optimal performance and responsiveness to front-end requests

• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements

• Designing customer-facing backend services for various business processes

• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code

• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions

• Running diagnostic tests, bug fixes, and providing technical support

• Documenting processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports

• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of designers, developers, project managers, and DevOps

Job requirements

• Proven work experience as a back-end developer

• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks like NodeJS, Express, and NestJS

• Experience consuming and building robust, RESTful, and GraphQL APIs

• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis

• Solid understanding of concepts like Microservices architecture, Serverless architecture, Docker, Kubernetes

• Be familiar with the concept of pipelines for Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration and have used at least one platform like CircleCI, GitLab CI, Github Actions, Travis CI, or Heroku Pipelines

• GIT, Git flow, and experience with Code Review

• Having been part of a multidisciplinary team and have used Agile methodologies like Kanban / Scrum

Nice to Haves

1. Kubernetes
2. Headless eCommerce
3. Cloud Architecture
4. Payment Gateways
5. SSDLC
6. Airflow

Life at Apply Digital

• Flexibility — work where you work best

• Paid vacation over the legal limits

• Opportunities for advancement and growth

• Opportunity to travel to our global offices

• Regular in-person, hybrid, and remote team and company events (Drink and draw, curling, karaoke, escape rooms, and team summits!)

• Bicycle parking

• Computer provided

• Beverages and snacks

Send us your application:

Once we've received and reviewed your CV, we'll email you to let you know how well we feel you'd fit into the role. If you make it to the next round, we'll send you a test to complete. Make sure you give it your all!

If your test goes well (we'll have several people reviewing it, so do your best) we'll be in touch about an interview. If there's anything important that you need to know before the interview, let us know, and we'll do our best to help.

About Apply Digital

We are an innovation, products, and experiences company. Digital to our core, we are purpose-built to transform possibilities for people. We solve complex problems with well-executed solutions tailor-made for continuous growth — we're ambitious, and our clients are too. We work with well-funded start-ups, global brands, and Fortune 1000 companies spanning industries and audiences, including Moderna, Kraft Heinz, Arc’teryx, and Realtor.com.

www.applydigital.com

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