[Hiring] Senior Engineer, Backend @JoVE

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer 3 to help lead the development of fast, well-tested, and performant code for our web applications and modernizing our application stack. If you are the kind of engineer passionate about developing well-built, reusable components following industry best practices, and love working in a collaborative environment with your product partners and dependency teams, then we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to build and maintain the user experience, accessibility, and development feasibility of the website, applications, and supporting digital spaces.
• Design and implement innovative solutions for the presentation of data and content on our websites, mobile apps, and other platforms.
• Adhere to JoVE’s brand standards and convey it cohesively across the website, supporting digital spaces and third-party platforms.
• Stay updated on the latest standards, changes, and web design and development trends.
• Contribute towards engineering excellence in areas like automated unit testing.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders on project design and implementation and other developers to maintain standards and create a reusable codebase.
• Expected to be self-motivated, needing little guidance on completing tasks on time and meeting expectations in terms of requirements.
• Explain and “whiteboard” complex technical issues to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise.
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation.
• Assist in automating deployments to development and other environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building scalable, data-driven backend systems and APIs.
• At least 2 years of experience in a technical leadership role, leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Strong proficiency in server-side programming (Node.js) - Must have.
• Familiarity with frontend technologies - React, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS.
• Strong understanding of system design, data architecture, and microservices or modular monoliths.
• Skilled in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and integrating with third-party services and external SDKs.
• Experience with event-driven systems, asynchronous processing, and message queues (Kafka, SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.).
• Experienced with SQL and NoSQL databases — e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis — with the ability to optimize queries and model complex data relationships.
• Solid experience with cloud-native architecture using AWS (serverless, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, etc.) or equivalent platforms.
• Demonstrated understanding and implementation of software design principles such as SOLID and DRY with Software as a Service (SaaS), multi-tenancy application development.
• Embraces the concepts of Agile Scrum software development and its related collaboration and issue-tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Rally).
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CICD) model, including GitHub and CI pipeline automation tools.
• Ability to triage and resolve incidents and lead incident investigations.

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package.
• We are fully remote!
• You will make a direct impact in accelerating science research and education.
• Opportunity to work with global teams and in an environment that promotes innovation and collaboration.
• Our strong promotion from within culture draws a clear path to advance your career with us.