Company Introduction

CacheFly has been building innovative CDN technology since 1999. Our goal is to help our customers entertain and educate the world. We believe that our small team, working together, with great technology, can make a bigger impact on our customers than any other company on Earth. 

We encourage initiative, reward performance, and aspire to keep work both fun and fulfilling.

We are a fully remote organization, with team members spread across multiple countries and timezones. Our flexible work policy allows everyone to work at a time that is convenient for them; provided that they are always meeting deadlines and attending pre-arranged meetings

Job Description

We are looking for an exceptional full stack developer who enjoys working in NodeJS and has a good working knowledge of the complete web infrastructure stack.

Your time will split your time between utility, backend and frontend code. You will be required to be able to implement new features and automated tests at each layer of the stack. You will be expected to recommend best practices during design discussion and improve the overall quality of both the code and the application on an ongoing basis.

You will work closely with other developers on the team, some of whom specialize in a specific layer of the stack and will require close collaboration to be able to make holistic changes to the application. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, regular communication, and good time keeping is essential.

All members of the team are expected to assist with quality assurance and keeping the production platform as issue free as possible.

Development teamwork hours are flexible, with meetings and conversations often starting around 10:00 AM UTC (6 AM US Eastern Time). Weekly video conferences usually occur on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Scheduled 

production deployments usually occur on a Monday.

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing API features in NodeJS
• Developing new user-facing UI features using React.
• Writing, maintaining, and testing code in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Converting issues into automated test cases.
• Fixing issues and performing code maintenance.
• Building reusable libraries, and components.
• Proactively identifying issues through active testing, and real user monitoring.
• Working as part of a team to deliver features which align with business objectives.
• Collaborate closely with other team members.
• Communicating progress, and issues in a timely manner; both asynchronously on issues and synchronously at regular team meetings.
• Advocating for modern development and best practices.

Skills

• Ability to understand requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• Ability to design and implement data structures for large scale applications.
• Ability to analyze complex technical documentation.
• Proficiency with JavaScript and web markup for the front end.
• Proficiency with JavaScript and NodeJS for the back end.
• Proficiency with other languages, such as Go, Python and PHP, is a plus.
• Knowledge of TypeScript, and newer specifications of EcmaScript.
• Knowledge of ReactJS and VueJS.
• Thorough understanding of web hosting infrastructures, including traditional and serverless models.
• Thorough understanding of RESTful API principles, and asynchronous request handling.
• Good understanding of unit testing, integration testing, and automated testing strategies.
• Good understanding of HTTP and web content caching.
• Experience working with Linux and shell scripts.
• Experience building, running and maintaining Docker images.
• Familiarity with git code versioning, and GitHub issue management.
• Excellent time keeping.
• Excellent communication skills; through issue tracking, instant messaging, and video conferencing.
• Keen interest in understanding and implementing modern best practices.
• Meticulous and organized approach to work.
• Logical, analytical, and creative approach to problem-solving.
• Thorough, detail-oriented work style.