Sr. Backend Developer

Dealer Inspire

Dealer Inspire, a CARS brand, is hiring for our METAL℠ Team!
METAL℠ is Dealer Inspire’s (DI) brand-new Inventory Management System (IMS). It is built with modern design, plus lightning-quick controls, to help our clients move metal faster than the competition. Designed mobile and tablet-first, METAL℠ allows car dealers to quickly and easily manipulate their vehicle inventory and have those changes appear on their Dealer Inspire website in real-time with API synchronization. From easy-to-implement pricing rules to the ability to upload hi-res inventory pictures, METAL℠ offers a full-suite of features that modernize inventory management.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities (including, but not limited to):
  • Architecture and development of new features; 
  • Improve performance; modify existing code to fix errors and bugs; 
  • Set and enforce code quality standards and test coverage;
  • Creation and management of AWS cloud infrastructure;
  • Mentoring of junior developers.
Required Skills & Experience: 
  • 5+ years of professional experience working with SQL databases, ideally Postgres; the ability to write efficient queries and benchmark/profile them.
  • Experience with AWS Cloud infrastructure, including the Fargate, RDS, SQS, and Lambda services.
  • 3+ years of professional experience working with NodeJS; including the Express framework. 
  • Strong understanding of asynchronous programming.
  • Experience with performance debugging and benchmarking.
  • Experience with testing frameworks, such as Cypress, Chai, Sinon, Mocha, and Jest.
  • Experience with Git version control.
  • Understanding of CI/CD.
  • Strong verbal & written communication skills.
  • Strong documentation skills.
  • Experience working remotely & as part of a distributed engineering team.
Highly Desired:
  • Strong understanding of client- and server-side GraphQL, especially using the Apollo GraphQL library.
  • Mobile-first, responsive web design.
  • Typescript experience
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