Job Description

Senior Node Engineer

Solving Start-up Challenges with Global Impact

We started our path in Y Combinator, and since then, start-up challenges have been in our DNA. Our company builds digital products that create a positive impact and collaborate with clients like The Pump, Queue, LATCH and many more.

If you are looking for opportunities to work with top American and European tech companies, you’ve stumbled upon the right job post!

We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team in Belgrade, Celje, Ljubljana, Maribor, Prishtina, or Sarajevo.

We are here to create solutions with clean and high-quality code. Back-end engineers at Povio tackled many interesting challenges in the last year:

• Utilizing AI to automatically generate reports tailored to users from the data they've provided;
• Building a real-time messaging platform that handles millions of messages per day using Node.js and WebSockets;
• Creating a serverless architecture using Node.js and AWS Lambda for a high-traffic NFT website;
• Using the latest AI technologies (ChatGPT), to semi-automate a big client’s content generation platform.

Still not sure about joining us? Consider this:

Povio team advantages

• A job with a high engineering culture and independence at work;
• Increased focus on improvements and cross-department collaboration;
• Global clients while still working mostly in the EU time zone;
• Team meetings for developers to discuss technology and exchange experiences;
• 1:1 meetings with team lead during which you receive and provide feedback;
• Tech support through helpful Wiki documents, on-demand help desk, and available stack leads;
• Opportunities to grow, work with new technologies, and make an impact.

Job tasks include

• Building applications in a modern web stack. Our projects are built in Node.js and we use TypeScript and NestJS;
• Code, test and operate Node.js based services;
• Systems analysis, design, and delivery of projects assigned;
• Continually discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

What we would like to see

• 5+ years of experience in web development, of which 3 years with JavaScript-based tech;
• Great communication skills;
• Experience with Node.JS on server-side development, specifically around creating Restful APIs (Restful endpoints with NodeJS) in an Express.JS framework;
• Team management skills;
• A humble attitude with a team-first mindset;
• Experience with AWS, basic dev ops, and scaling infrastructure to support increases in users;
• Proficient in SQL and Postgres.
  

You will be working alongside other engineers who cover different layers of the infrastructure. This gives you the option to openly debate and collaborate in solving problems to deliver a quality final product.