Fullstack Engineer (Freelancer)

At Tectu, you can make a real impact! As a Fullstack Engineer you will play a lead role in delivering customer facing applications and backend infrastructure. The ideal candidate is passionate about delivering cutting edge solutions to support the changing business needs and technology landscape. You will be working closely with others on our Product, UX and Engineering teams to define and deliver these solutions.

If you are passionate about technology, self-motivated and a disciplined freelancer, we would love to speak with you. The ideal candidate has both a willingness and desire to work in a dynamic environment, is able to apply Agile methodologies in day-to-day activities, and who enjoys working both independently with little oversight and in a team environment.

At Tectu, we work with various customers, providing advanced tech solutions to solve different problems and needs. As a Fullstack Engineer at Tectu, your day will most likely vary according to which projects youre involved in, but generally youll be performing the following activities:

• Building production-grade backend services and APIs to delight customers

• Owning major projects from inception to production deployment, shipping at a rapid pace

• Architecting, designing and developing simple, yet flexible solutions for a variety of customers

• Ensuring high performance of systems and fast page load speeds.

• Building reusable components for frontend and backend infrastructure

• Writing quality code thats automatically tested as part of the development lifecycle

• Contributing to team-wide efforts - code reviews, design reviews, technical decisions, and mentoring others

• 5+ years with production grade Java, C#, Python or similar languages

• 5+ years of front end with modern frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Vue) and excellent Typescript / JavaScript, CSS, and HTML skills.

• Experience with a variety of data stores and modeling including relational and NoSQL DBs (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Elastic, Redis, Mongo, Cassandra, etc)

• Solid programming foundations: data structures, multi-threading, OOP and design patterns

• Experience with microservices architectures and strong API design skills

• Experience with containers and orchestration tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience with the latest cloud technologies of one of the biggest vendors (AWS, Azure, Google)

• A proven track record of owning and delivering features on time

• Strong work ethic and strong core values (honesty, integrity, creativity)

• Sense of urgency, ownership mindset, and customer focus

• Innovative problem solver who takes initiative never stops thinking about ways to improve

• Ability to self-learn new skills and technologies

• BS in Computer Science, or similar degree is preferred

• Deep awareness of cross-browser tweaks and responsive design

• Experience in front end testing solutions (e.g. unit, E2E) using frameworks such as Jest, Jasmine, Karma, Cypress, or at least a strong desire to work this way and shift-left

• Highly experienced in building scalable, high-performance, tested, and monitored systems

• Passion for details, strong aesthetic sense, commitment to pixel perfection, appreciation for UX

• Able to create and communicate the 'big picture' in a clear way.

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