JavaScript Backend Rockstar with Limited FE proficiency

A project by the American company Scripto, founded in 2014 for collaboration scriptwriting platforms used by TV shows. It combines Google Docs' real-time flow with the professional writing and production formats used in TV, video games, and other media. Whether you're taping a show in a studio, collaborating on screenplays, or making a video game, Scripto helps you do your best work and save time while you do it.

• TypeSript / JavaScript
• Node.js
• ProseMirror
• Express.js
• Nest.js
• ts-rest
• PostgreSQL
• Docker
• AWS ECS
• React
• MobX-State-Tree
• Mobx
• Terraform

• Design a scalable and reliable application, including AWS infrastructure
• Develop new features with a strong focus on the backend
• Impact on the product team decisions by providing tech expertise and estimations for the cost-benefit analysis
• Conduct transformation of an existing product if necessary
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Fix bugs

General experience

• 10+ years of experience in web application development
• 5+ years of experience in senior developer positions, solving hard and complex tech problems and making informed decisions on the architecture for features you created
• At least upper-intermediate English

Specific skills

• Mastery of TypeScript in Node.js, i.e. backend typescript
• Expert or advanced experience with protocols, streaming, sockets, in order of desirability:
  1. Backend systems for socket-driven CRDTs or OT systems
  2. TypeScript over streams i.e. typed payloads over socket.io
  3. Other asynchronous architectures e.g. CQRS, or Eventsourcing
  4. Anything complex vs marketing or e-commerce sites with a simple REST architecture
• Expert in Node.js - how to write async code in Node.js.
• Web telemetry reporting advanced expertise. Datadog monitoring will be a big plus.
• Expert or advanced experience with the following AWS services:
  1. ECS / Fargate
  2. ELB
  3. Cloudwatch
• Advanced user of Postgres:
  1. SQL coding
  2. Schema design
  3. DBA / management: performance profiling, plugin architecture, general DBA
• Partial proficiency in JavaScript - post es6 skills, looking for async mastery - promises, etc
• Partial proficiency in React
• Partial proficiency in Chrome internals and dev tools
• Terraform, especially for AWS will be nice to have icing on the cake

• Effective Delegation – the ability to entrust tasks and responsibilities to team members, empowering them to leverage their strengths and skills while ensuring that objectives are achieved efficiently and effectively
• Technical Curiosity – the desire to deeply understand how technologies, systems, and tools work beyond their basic functionality, driving you to explore, analyze, and learn the underlying principles and mechanics
• Persuasive Reasoning – the ability to argue logically and patiently persuade other engineers of the correctness of your solution
• Accountability – the demonstrated “no-nonsense” attitude to delivering excellence to customers
• Critical Problem-Solving – the ability to think critically about challenges & design efficient & effective solutions
• Integrity – keeping your commitments to the team, customers, and stakeholders
• A strong work ethic

As long as the team is a mix of US and European developers, you will need to work late hours several days a week:

Normal Days (2 days a week):

• Working up to 18:00 EET (17:00 CET).
• Overlap with
  • New York: 2 hours
  • California: 1 hour

Extended Days (3 days a week):

• Working up to 21:00 EET (20:00 CET)
• Overlap with
  • New York: 5 hours
  • California: 3 hours

• International team in a collaborative, highly engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard
• State-of-the-art learning and development opportunities, ability to experiment with new technologies in real work environments
• 100% ability to work remotely, which will let you determine your work-life balance;
• Monthly load: full-time
• Monthly rate: the salary is paid in USD by the 20th of each month
• Vacation: 18 working days + US or local public holidays
• 3 months trial period