Educational requirements: Bachelor
English requirements: Competent English
Requirements for skilled employment experience for years: 3-5 years
Required residence status: Temporary visa, Permanent resident, Citizen
Accept remote work: unacceptable
The role
As an experienced and independent Senior Back End Developer, you are a thought leader and passionate about driving back-end development forward as well as supporting and coaching others. You’ll produce well structured-code that is valid, tested and of a high production standard and provide technical input to help guide our team and build trust and credibility with our clients. You’ll work closely with the team on technical planning and decisions, reviewing PR’s and collaborating with other devs on technical questions and bug fixes. For this role, you should be able to contribute to new and innovative solutions whilst staying up to date with new technologies by experimenting, learning and improving.
We work with a number of different technologies to suit the individual challenges faced by our clients. On the back-end, we enjoy using everything from serverless architecture to serving REST and GraphQL. APIs using NodeJS, to hosted CMS solutions using Craft CMS, MySQL, Docker and Lightsail. On the front-end, we favor React and NextJS, using both Javascript and Typescript. We use React Native for app development, as well as Swift and Java for hardware-specific solutions. Inlight utilises AWS products and infrastructure. We value experience with AWS, including Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudfront RDS, DynamoDB, and Lambda, as well as experience using Terraform, CDK and Serverless. Inlight is a Vercel partner, and any experience using Vercel or NextJS will be highly beneficial.
You don’t need to be an expert in all of the above, but a willingness and ability to learn and adapt to evolving technologies is essential. You're someone who Has at least 3 to 4 years' experience with a variety of back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries, especially, but not limited to, AWS Serverless, NextJS, Node, and React, Javascript, Typescript... Has experience of working with agile methodologies and tools, Has a Computer Science qualification or equivalent experience, Has provided technical leadership across projects and have first-hand experience crafting end-to-end solutions and designing complex backend systems, Applies reasoned logic when solving problems, Is pragmatic and looks at ways to make things easier,Follows curiosity to challenge how things are done and can work through problems, Is a team player and enjoys collaborating and sharing ideas and knowledge with your peers, Can develop empathy when considering different perspectives, Can confidently contribute to technical discussions with the team and clients, Invests in learning and enjoys experimenting with new tools and technologies. A few benefits Great degree of working flexibility (hybrid) within a supportive and friendly team, Fun, modern and informal office environment, The ability to have a broad and significant impact in a growing and proudly independent business, Work on complex and interesting projects that create genuine value for the people who use them, Plenty of responsibility of projects, Growth & Learning focussed environment with clear progression pathways and support, Our team’s learning is important to us. You will get access to a $1,000 annual learning fund, You’ll get your own MacBook and will be surrounded by all the modern and latest tech, Since we are a remote friendly workplace, we offer a $1,000 stipend to spend on your home setup, A wellbeing day to support mental health. Diversity in all forms is embraced and encouraged in our team. We are an equal opportunity employer and believe that we are all the better for inviting different perspectives into the thinking, designing, and building of our work. We also think it makes for a more interesting place to work!
