Back End Developer  

Podcast Network Asia is looking for a Back-end Engineer who is responsible for the development of all server-side logic and its integration with front-end elements built into the application. You will also be tasked with the maintenance of the application’s central database and regular quality assurance of the application to ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Develop robust, scalable solutions for collecting & analyzing large data sets. Must be proficient in creating & maintaining data pipelines.
• Develop, deploy, and test Node.js/Python based micro-services based on a set of requirements
• Implement and maintain security and data protection, and proactively identify opportunities to improve data integrations and data security
• Design and develop analytic data repositories (data warehouse, data marts, data lakes) and ELT/ETL processes to acquire, manipulate, and store data
• Create and ensure completion and quality of any documentation required (e.g., deployment, maintenance, support and business needs)
• Regularly perform tests and monitor logs to optimize performance and maintain the accuracy of data pulled from third party sources
• Research technical strategies, third party tools, and current and new technologies to deal with emerging technical issues, improve development efficiency, and develop new features

• Experience with NodeJS
• Experience with Typescript
• Experience developing REST API and GraphQL
• Experience using No SQL databases including Mongo DB and Dynamo DB
• Experience building APIs from scratch and integrating with external APIs
• Experience in AWS serverless technologies using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, S3, DynamoDB, Cognito, and Athena/Redshift
• Experience with web-scraping; capable of writing durable and creative web scrapers with your own custom logic on top of Python libraries like scrapy, requests, or selenium
• Proficiency in developing packages, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and complex SQL statements
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git)
• Thorough understanding and knowledge about the Micro-Services and Event-Driven architecture
• Strong understanding of abstraction layers in software architecture
• Must be proficient in creating and maintaining data pipelines
• Possesses analytical skills and appreciates complex situations
• An innovative thinker who is hungry to contribute to the vision of the future of the products they handle