Senior Backend Developer (Node.JS/Typescript)
Easygo, Australia
Job Description
Easygo is a well-established tech startup, we pride ourselves on being early adopters, progressive in our approach and adaptable to the ever-changing technology landscape. Our core focus is in the online gaming space building well-designed casino games, crypto platforms, and sportsbooks. The products we build are used by millions of people around the world and you’ll see their logos on an EPL team, the UFC, advocated by e-gamers and in a number of other sporting places.
The last 2 years have been huge for us, we have grown from 20 to 125+ team members. Whilst the products that we build are global, the majority of the team sits in Melbourne at our Australian headquarters in the heart of the CBD where we have 2 amazing offices in the same building with all the bells and whistles you could ever want including an in-house barista, pool, and table tennis tables, PS5 and Nintendo Switches, a meditation room, help yourself drinks fridge and snack wall, catered breakfast daily, weekly massages and a pub lunch.
The Role:
We are looking for an experienced Back-end developer to join our team. You will be responsible for the server-side of our web applications. If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you. As a Back-end developer, you’ll work closely with our engineers to ensure system consistency and improve user experience. Ultimately, you should be able to develop and maintain functional and stable web applications to meet our company’s needs.
- Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
- Write clean code to develop functional web applications
- Troubleshoot and debug applications
- Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
- Gather and address technical and design requirements
- Provide training and support to internal teams
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
- Follow emerging technologies
Requirements
- Proven work experience as a Back-end developer
- In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
- Comprehensive understanding of our development stack, languages and frameworks, specifically: NodeJS (TypeScript), GraphQL, API Integrations, Relational Databases, Kubernetes amp; Docker.
- Excellent analytical and time management skills
- Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
It would be a bonus if you also had (Desirable skills):
- Postgres or ElasticSearch expertise
- Big Data / analytics experience (i.e AWS Redshift, ETL tools, Tableau, MicroStrategy)
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Quarterly team socials, as well as lots of adhoc get-togethers, and things for you to get involved in (if you want).
- $750 to spend on any upskilling/training course that you would like per annum
- Optional flu shots for the entire office and paid time off to get your covid vaccines.
- Breakfast catering every day, an in-house barista, snack wall and full stocked drink fridges to help yourself
- Friday pub lunch amp; happy hour at 4 PM
- Massage Wednesdays, we get a professional in to do these!
- Pool amp; Table Tennis Table, 2 Games rooms with PS5 amp; Switch, Dart Boards, board games
- Mindfulness room that can be used for prayer/meditation
- Company retreats every year
- 1 paid volunteer day per year
- And we have many many more initiatives that we will be rolling out over the next 12 months.
We are a 2022 Circle Back Initiative Employer we commit to respond to every applicant
We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace that encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.