Regular node.js developer

Project Description

We are pleased to announce new vacancy opening in the Luxoft Media department. Our department runs a variety of small, medium and large accounts in multiple domains internationally, like Mass Media, Social Networks, Video streaming, Mobile communications, offering versatile and challenging opportunities for those who seek continuous professional development within very strong teams.

In Media we are striving to employ cutting edge technologies and approaches whenever possible. Most of our Customers come from the USA, UK, Australia, Japan and Western Europe, hence satisfactory English command is a must.

Our Customer is among the world's leading creators and distributors of award-winning still imagery, video and multimedia products, as well as other forms of premium digital content. The project targets to enhance and further develop advanced media management platform, to help our Customer to serve business customers in more than 100 countries and continue to be the first place media professionals to discover, purchase and manage the digital content. You will have an opportunity to work alongside of the best-in-class photographers and imagery that help customers produce inspiring work which appears every day in the world's most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and online media.

Responsibilities

Implement software components according to the design specifications.

Participate in estimating project efforts and delivery timelines

Work in a high-speed, agile environment to ship features in the shortest time possible

Deliver quality code by applying the best development practices

Develop and execute unit, functional, integration testing of developed software components

Take part in Configuration Management, Continuous Integration implementation

Proactively collaborate with teammates and communicate with project stakeholders to ensure project efforts proceed efficiently and with predictability

SKILLS 

MUST

At least 2 years of WebDev experience.

1+ years of experience in Node.js (async approach, promises)

Strong knowledge in unit & integration testing with Mocha, should.js & Supertest

Some experience with Swagger (documentation generation, quick API testing)

GIT flow (pull requests, branches etc)

Understanding of middleware in application architecture (that's Node.js part itself)

Understanding of Sockets & Node.js pipes

Experience with API development

Knowledge of HTTP and REST is a plus

Upper-intermediate English or above

NICE TO HAVE

Experience with distributed systems and data analysis

Experience & understanding with RabbitMQ or another queues

Experience with MongoDB & Mongoose, Map-Reduce, other aggregations

Natural curiosity to find creative and effective solutions for complex problems

Experience with DevOps tasks: Jenkins, Gulp tasks, working with Unix, etc.

Experience with Docker

Ability to make business trips to the USA