Lead Full Stack Developer-AI/Data Science Web Development

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, AngularJS, AWS, Azure, Business Development, C Programming, C# Programming, CSS, Data science techniques, Data structuring, Docker, Git, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GraphQL, HTTP acceleration, Infrastructure-as-code-IaC, Java Programming, JavaScript, Kubernetes-K8s, Leadership Skill, Node.js, NoSQL, Python Programming, RDBMS, React.js, TypeScript, XML-JSON

Job Description

Are you a curious, adaptable, self-driven developer who demonstrates expertise by communicating your ideas clearly, and respectfully to those around you? Do you accept the ideas of others, and change your approach in the spirit of learning, and of shared principles, patterns, and practices? Do you challenge the ideas of others in the spirit of reaching the best possible outcome, and as a result of explorations sparked by being adaptable? Does the code you write reveal a journey toward simplicity on the other side of complexity?

Robots & Pencils is a talent-led organization with a helper culture, and an unfair share of creative makers who are passionate about finding a far better way to deliver new products to market, and to develop innovative solutions that transform businesses.

As a Lead Developer, you will work with talented developers, creative designers, experience designers, stakeholders, and clients to:

• Deliver solutions, products, and product features in an array of industries
• Craft APIs that support mobile apps, web apps, slack apps, etc.
• Provide, and ensure top-drawer software by actively participating in continual improvement, and engaging peer review
• Support business development in the creation of budgets and schedules for projects
• Share knowledge and insights with team members through various channels, such as mentorship, lunch & learns, examples, and exercises, etc.

Qualifications

Necessary:

• 7+ of building app with Node.js and Kubernetes (K8 open source system) KOA on AWS with K8 required

• Experience with data science/AI web development preferred

• 7+ years of delivering software
• S. or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• Passion for the user, and developer experiences
• Deep understanding of at least one established programming language (i.e. JavaScript, Go, Elixir, Python, Java, C#, C, etc.)
• Strong understanding of common design patterns, and adjacent technologies (i.e. some or all of: SQL, TypeScript, MV[Whatever], Repository, REST, GraphQL, Swagger/OpenAPI/JSON Schema/OData, Git, NodeJS, Apollo, Phoenix, React, Angular, Vue, (S)CSS, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong understanding of the full web technology stack (i.e. HTTP, caching, headers, cookies, client-server)
• Strong understanding of software security practices
• Proficiency in working with API’s and third party integrations
• Disciplined approach to testing, quality, and behaviour driven development
• Understanding of CS concepts (i.e. APIs, services, nTier, microservices/SOA, data structures and normalization, data access patterns, profiling & optimization)
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies
• Ability to collaborate and communicate with various team members across multiple timezones
• Sharpies, Post-its and robot dreams

Desired

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to share insights, and expectations with stakeholders, clients, team members, and various levels of management
• Github profile or link to open source work
• Devops experience in Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (i.e. Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Experience with implementing, configuring, or otherwise taking advantage of continuous integration
• Experience with multi-tenant architectures (SaaS)
• Strength in SQL, and RDBMS design
• Exposure to no-SQL
• Experience building time machines

Additional Information

Robots & Pencils aspires to have a workforce that is representative of the diversity of our country and encourages applications from everyone.