Senior Node.js Engineer

SendFriend is a cross-border payments company that aims to provide faster, cheaper, reliable, and secure money remittances.

Jersey City, USA
About SendFriend

SendFriend Inc. is a licensed money-transmission company building a cross-border payments service. It supports consumer remittances, allowing users to send or request money, with payment instruments including bank accounts and cards and payouts through local banks, money exchange houses, and other service providers. The company also describes work on blockchain-based payment solutions for business and consumer customers.

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About the Role

You will develop an event-driven, high-performance system that withstands high load. You will design and execute performance tests, contribute to architecture and security research involving blockchain integration, participate in Agile ceremonies, identify quality improvements, and document your work.

Requirements

  • In-depth knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript
  • 2–4+ years of experience with Node.js programming, frameworks, and tools
  • Knowledge of coding standards, design patterns, code reviews, continuous delivery, source control, testing, and operations
  • 1–2+ years of experience building and maintaining microservice-based applications
  • Experience designing APIs and service communication using REST, GraphQL, or gRPC
  • Knowledge of message-driven architecture
  • DevOps experience
  • Experience developing solutions on AWS
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Knowledge of Docker
  • Ability to set up a local environment from scratch
  • Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment

Responsibilities

  • Develop an event-driven, high-performance system capable of withstanding high load
  • Design and execute load, spike, stress, and scalability tests
  • Contribute to architecture, security, and blockchain-integration research
  • Participate in team meetings and Agile ceremonies
  • Identify quality improvements
  • Document your work