Back-End Developer at hearX Group

Job purpose:

Developing and maintaining software products and solutions offered by the company.

• Our technical stack comprises of Golang to build fast, fault tolerant and distributed systems (NATS, NATS Jetstream, CQRS), MySQL/PostgreSQL for data storage, Github actions for CI/CD, Docker (and compose) for containerisation and Amazon Web Services (AWS) as hosting provider. We are split into teams, each with a specific product focus. Each team will include a Business Analyst, Back-end- and Front-End Engineers, Android and/or iOS Developers, and/or Web Developers, each who bring a unique and creative perspective to the team

REQUIREMENTS

Minimum education (essential):

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or similar)

Minimum education (desirable):

• MSc/PhD in computer science or other technical discipline.

Minimum applicable experience (years):

• 5+ years working experience
• Required nature of experience:
• Software engineer

Skills and Knowledge (essential):

• Design and build data stores with complex relationships (relational or NoSQL).
• Built/Design distributed systems, back-end APIs, or microservices.
• CS fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis.

Skills and Knowledge

(desirable):

• Experience in Golang.
• Experience with continuous deployment technologies. (Jenkins).
• Familiarity with (TDD) unit testing, performance, load, or end-to-end integration tests.
• Other:

COMPETENCIES

Essential Competencies:

• Examining Information 
• Developing Expertise
• Making Decisions
• Showing Composure
• Embracing Change
• Meeting Timescales 
• Upholding Standards
• Taking Action 

Important Competencies:

• Providing Insights 
• Interpreting Data
• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Exploring Possibilities 
• Thinking Positively 
• Conveying Self-Confidence 
• Inviting Feedback 
• Impressing People 
• Convincing People
• Challenging Ideas
• Managing Tasks 
• Following Procedures

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS, WEIGHTS & OBJECTIVES 

Analysis and Planning 20%

• Multitask on a range of products and tasks simultaneously, defining priorities and ensuring efficiency.
• Define and communicate problem, goal and acceptance criteria.
• Communicate and collaborate with development, business analyst and design teams to solve problems, make recommendations and discuss best programming practices.
• Conduct research on possible solutions and techniques.
• Prepare a work breakdown structure.
• Determine and account for dependencies among deliverables, products and systems.
• Accurately estimate duration of deliverables 
• Document analysis and planning process.

Programming 40%

• Follow project plan to develop software.
• Analyse systems for root cause, impact, workarounds and permanent fixes.
• Communicate effectively and efficiently with line manager on progress, priorities and workload
• Work with stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.
• Meet development timelines in projects and deliverables
• Identify and mitigate risks, making appropriate mid-course corrections as required
• Adhere to agreed upon standards for code. 
• Generate and maintain effective and efficient high quality, reusable code. 
• Use effective and efficient components & techniques to implement solutions.
• Ensure all work is versioned and backed up according to company standards.
• Meet set deliverable deadlines.

Testing and implementation 20%

• Ensure that all work is tested, benchmarked and fulfills functional requirements submitting for approval, review or deployment.
• Prepare test environment, examples and instructions.
• Participate enthusiastically in peer code reviews.
• Deploy changes to live environment.
• Maintain system and product change logs and release notes according to company standards.

Reporting and Communication 10%

• Keep project documentation up to date and standard.
• Provide timeous, efficient and effective feedback on project status.
• Proactively keep stakeholders updated on progress, risks and problems.
• Assist in the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.
• Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software.
• Provide insight and feedback on queries regarding relevant projects. 

Database Administration 5%

• Perform maintenance to ensure data integrity and efficiency.
• Deploy new structure and content.
• Restore data when required.

Compliance 5%

• Comply to ISO, CE, FDA (and other) standards and requirements as is applicable to assigned products.
• Safeguard confidential information.
• Maintain backups and backup systems.