Senior Backend Developer

Lusha is growing, and we are on the lookout for a backend developer with frontend capabilities to join our team.

If you excel at solving real-world problems, thrive in team environments, boast excellent communication skills, possess deep knowledge of web technologies, take ownership of your work, and are driven to make an impact, then read on. This opportunity could be precisely what you've been searching for!

What will you be doing?

As a backend engineer with frontend skills, you will take full ownership of features and products - from research and design to implementation, testing, and deployment to production, end-to-end. You'll work closely with our data engineering and data science teams to ensure the delivery of top-notch, resilient services, with an added responsibility for contributing to the UI/UX aspects of our projects using React or a similar UI framework.

You will:

• Be an integral part of the compliance squad, working in an agile environment, primarily with Node.js and Python, and contributing to frontend development with React or another chosen UI framework.
• Collaborate with our data teams to ensure our data is compliant and user interfaces are intuitive and user-friendly.
• Ensure quality by developing corresponding tests for both backend and frontend.
• Identify performance issues and design comprehensive solutions that encompass both server and client-side.
• Deploy using CI/CD to our microservices environment, ensuring a seamless user experience through effective frontend integration.

You are:

• A team player, eager to work in a group of engineers, discussing, analyzing, and crafting the architecture of solutions for the requirements presented by the product manager of the squad.
• Technically versatile, with a keen interest in extending your influence to the frontend, ensuring that both the server and client sides work harmoniously.
• Communicative, ready to interact daily with product managers and engineers as we are organized in squads.
• A data-driven thinker, involved in the product's ongoing development, proposing solutions or changes based on data to introduce improvements.
• A learner, bringing innovation to the team by adopting different technologies or techniques that can be applied to improve both the team and the company.
• Focused on impact, passionate about the product and always considering what’s best for it.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in designing and implementing server-side applications.
• 4+ years of programming experience in Node.js.
• Experience writing tests (Unit, component, functional, E2E).
• Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, such as Postgres, Mongo, and Redis.
• Experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ/SQS.
• Proficiency in React or another modern UI framework/library, with a solid understanding of creating user-friendly, responsive designs.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with distributed systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes & dockers.
• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Familiarity with Pyspark and Spark streaming, Airflow.

If you're excited by the prospect of contributing to both backend and frontend development, fostering a seamless user experience, and working within a dynamic, data-driven team, we'd love to hear from you. Join us at Lusha, and let's create impactful, innovative solutions together.