Full-Stack Developer

Job description

Overview

Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) is boldly redefining commerce by simplifying complex payments ecosystems across the world. As the leader in commerce-enabling technology, Shift4 powers billions of transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of businesses in virtually every industry. For more information, visit www.shift4.com.

We are looking for a talented Full Stack Developer to join our engineering team. The Candidate will be working in one of our international crossfunctional teams in a fast-paced “startup like” environment, participating in development of core services, working on new features and integrations, and taking part in all Scrum team activities. The role requires hands-on development experience and drives technical decisions and design for technical solutions. The ideal candidate is smart, responsible and self-managed, and is proactive in taking ownership and seeing problems through to resolution while connecting across the organization as a good team player.

As a Fullstack Engineer, you will:

• Design, implement features across the stack using TypeScript (Node.js & React)

  • Backend and frontend development will be split roughly ⁶⁰⁄₄₀, depending on the team goals

• Embrace our engineering culture and write well-structured, maintainable, and efficient code along with unit tests

• Ensure security and quality of backend services as we deal with our clients’ money

• Design database schemas, write performant SQL queries and analyze slow places (PostgreSQL)

• Participate in design mocks review in collaboration with designer and product manager  to ensure the delivery of best possible user experience

• Own production support issues (third-line), including troubleshooting and fixing complex bugs

• Work in Agile team, participate in all sprint activities: provide daily updates, groom sprint backlog, estimate sprint tasks, participate in the planning process, analyze what went well and what can be improved on the retrospectives

• Collaborate with the team, QAs and product team on platform improvements and selection of tools and technologies while keeping transparent communication with all stakeholders

• Lead and participate in technical research (spikes), solution design, and documentation

• Example tasks and projects:

  • Adding new features to internal administrative dashboard, donation form, donor dashboard, fundraising platform and public API
  • Extending client self-service portal functionality
  • Maintaining auto-updating API Reference documentation
  • Donation form and fundraising platform updates
  • Partner integrations: API, SDK, embedded iframe, etc
  • Integrations with third-party APIs, development of our public API
  • Technical research to come up with approach to migrate data from one DB to another
  • Improving technical monitoring of the platform
  • Documenting technical solution to start improvements discussion
  • Collaboration with the product team on the Epic decomposition and quarter roadmap definition
  • Helping other team members find the best solution if they stuck or blocked

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience as a full-stack developer with at least 2-3 recent years of experience with NodeJS and React
• Hands-on coding experience in TypeScript
• Skills of System Design and OOP design patterns
• Experience designing APIs and integrating with third-party APIs
• Experience with front-end development and best practices, skilled in React
• Thorough understanding of writing maintainable and secure code. Awareness of OWASP Top 10 common security vulnerabilities in web applications and preventions is essential
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, Docker, basic knowledge of AWS
• Experience in 3rd line production support (troubleshooting, bug fixing, communication to stakeholders)
• Interest in blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and/or non-profits
• Analytical, decomposition and problem solving skills
• Experience with Agile project delivery
• Self-starter with an ability to learn new concepts quickly
• Strong communication skills in English

Desired Qualifications (Skills that are a plus to have)

• Experience in taking technical ownership in past projects (including system design, team coordination, or mentoring). Interest in taking on team management responsibilities will be considered a plus
• Experience with message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS and such)
• Familiarity with non-SQL storages (i.e. Redis)
• Experience with MUI, styled-components, state management tools (mobx, redux, etc.)
• Knowledge and experience with web services monitoring
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines configuration (e.g., implemented in GitLab)
• Experience with Jira software (or similar platforms) a plus
• Knowledge of how Kubernetes and AWS-based infrastructure works

More about our Team

• Tech stack: TypeScript, Node.js (koa), React, PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ, Jest, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
• We work in 100% remote and outcome-focused teams of 5-8 experienced engineers with a strong culture of ownership
• We value ownership, pragmatism, and clear communication using English as the primary language
• You’ll work directly with the team lead, product manager and collaborate with other engineers in the team

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.