Job Description

Here at Mindera, we are building a world class team and would love for you to join us. Working within one of the UK's most premier and unique homewares retailer, you’ll be part of the development and improvement of the core service-oriented architecture of high-scalable and performant platforms.

You will find a team that has a passion for software development and an excellent understanding of how to define and deliver cloud-based solutions, iteratively and collaboratively. Our focus is to develop with high standards while having operational aspects in mind (metrics collection, tracing, etc.) with a holistic view of the backend platform in the back of your mind.

We are looking for a Node.js developer that loves technology and enjoys building highly performant and secure services, that will be used by thousands of customers and deal with millions of transactions per minute.

National and international expected traveling time varies according to project/client and organizational needs: 0%-15% estimated.

Responsibilities

You’re great at

• Vanilla JavaScript and/or TypeScript and modern frameworks and platforms such as React and Node.js;
• Developing performant, resilient, and secure services;
• Building and handling asynchronous and event-driven workflows;
• Protocols and architectural patterns like HTTP, REST, and/or GraphQL;
• Creating testable code and making testing a priority;
• Being passionate, self-driven, and working with little supervision towards a common team or company purpose;

It would be fantastic if you

• Cloud platforms like AWS, GCP or Azure;
• SQL and NoSQL data stores;
• Service oriented architectures, design patterns, and data structures;
• Code versioning tools like Git in a continuous delivery process;
• Code quality tools like linters, type checkers, and static analyses;
• Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban;

What you will be doing

• Implementing innovative cloud-based solutions;
• Working alongside Front-End developers to deliver performant and secure services;
• Developing and maintaining features in a collaborative, Agile environment;
• Writing testable code and ensuring the test coverage stays at the agreed level;
• Documenting your code;
• Take ownership of your code every step of the way - from development to deployment and maintenance;
• Diagnose issues in production and devise solutions for them;
• Work both autonomously and collaboratively to complete tasks;
• Be an integral part of solutions design and implementation;
• Care about all the steps your code goes through from your machine to production;

Profile

About Mindera
 

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self-management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

Check out our Blog and our Handbook!

Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Blumenau, Brazil

Benefits

The Things We Really Care About:

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers

Other Good Things:

• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote is also an option.
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses

Most of all you get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.