Company Description

Better Engineers. Better Results. SalsaMobi connects accomplished Software Engineers across the Americas with our portfolio of high-growth and newsworthy technology companies in the United States. Senior Engineers in the SalsaMobi network work remotely with some of the most interesting tech companies in the world. Join us today and experience a life where talent has no borders.

Job Description

We are seeking a remote Senior Backend NodeJS Engineer to join a U.S. based distributed team of senior engineers to deliver market-leading software solutions. The ideal candidate would also have experience working in a startup environment building consumer-facing software that has many users.

Responsibilities: 

● You will own technical strategy for data-heavy web services architecture

● You’ll participate in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects

● You will build your own team of backend, data, and ML engineers as we grow our
customer base and automation

●You will build real-time, cloud-based web services and REST APIs to enable reliable and
scalable conversational messaging applications

● You will work with AI experts and data engineers to architect and implement real-time
data pipelines to support our NLP and ML needs.

● You'll brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, and Frontend Engineering to
conceptualize and build new features.

● You’ll develop & implement tests for ensuring the quality, performance, & scalability of our
application.

● You’ll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Qualifications

Qualifications:

● Experience with Node.js, SQL, NoSQL (Python, Ruby experience a huge plus)

● Professional experience in cloud engineering, working in a team environment

● 5 years of experience building, testing, and deploying REST APIs

● Deep knowledge of real-time messaging service platforms

● You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms,
programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval

● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

● Experience with functional or imperative programming languages -- e.g., PHP, Python or Go (used without frameworks)

● Experience working with large scale GCP environments

Nice to have:

• Mobile messaging platforms, conversational bots
• Extensive experience managing remote teams
• Experience with large-scale, high-velocity data systems
• Worked with ML and data engineers in the past on implementing and integrating ML models and building data pipelines

Additional Information

Strong preference for candidates from the United States.