In-office: Leoben (Austria)
Remote: Full or partial remote work possible (Place of residence: Austria or Germany)
Senior Node.js Developer (f/m/x)
We are the creators of AURENA, the fastest growing auction platform in central Europe with more than 200,000 corporate and private bidders. Our mission is to build the best auction experience in the digital world and to deliver thrill and excitement to our users. We are a scaleup business, already the market leader in Austria, and now expanding in Europe.
Join our dedicated team – let’s build to thrill together.
Your opportunity
We are looking for a highly experienced Node.js Developer responsible for feature development and continuous improvement of our leading real-time auction platform. Your primary focus will be to develop new features and performance improvements for our existing event-driven middleware and microservices, and build highly scalable greenfield services.
This role is a senior appointment that offers you the opportunity to lead middleware and microservice development at AURENA Tech.
Your area of responsibility
- Development of high-performance, horizontally scalable, Node.js middleware and microservices with an event-driven distributed architecture
- Writing clean, idiomatic, well-documented TypeScript and JavaScript
- Ensuring excellent code coverage with unit tests (JEST)
- Integration with Kafka with Avro encoding
- Integration with Elastic stack for observability
- Using suitable software design patterns in an event-driven framework with one-way data flow
- Designing and writing asynchronous code paths that need to incorporate graceful failure modes under peak load
- Propose and evaluate alternate system designs and advocate for best fit
What makes you the right candidate?
- Passionate about JavaScript and Typescript
- A minimum of 5 years experience in the development of production-grade Node.js applications
- Excellent knowledge of Node.js, TypeScript, and JEST
- Well-versed in writing unit and integration tests
- Experienced using one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Experienced in microservice architecture
- Experienced designing and implementing REST and GraphQL including GraphQL federation
- Committed, conscientious personality with the ability to direct others
- Ability and courage to advocate for what you believe is best for the business and team
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in English, no German skills required
- Eager to learn and extend boundaries
- Enjoy autonomy and a responsible, self-directed way of working
- EU citizen or valid work permit for the EU
Summary
Fulltime, permanent
Weekly hours of work 38.5 hours
Overtime compensation for 5 hours per week included in salary
Salary range starts at EUR 69,300 gross per year
We offer a higher salary in line with your experience and skills.
Your application
Applying at AURENA Tech is pretty straightforward. After submitting the application form, you can expect a response directly from the Tech team within a few days.
If you want to learn more, take a look at our hiring process.
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