Back-end NodeJS Developer - Remote

Knock.com
Expired
Ha Noi
At office

Job description

Our homes are our most valuable asset and also the most difficult to buy and sell. Knock is on a mission to make trading in your house as simple and certain as trading in your car. Started by founding team members of Trulia.com (NYSE: TRLA, acquired by Zillow for $3.5B), Knock is an online home trade-in platform that uses data science to price homes accurately, technology to sell them quickly and a dedicated team of professionals to guide you every step of the way. We share the same top-tier investors as iconic brands like Netflix, Tivo, Match, HomeAway and Houzz. We are seeking a passionate Backend Engineer to help us design and build our customer-facing APIs and backend services. You must be a developer with a keen sense of good system design and application architecture. We are looking for someone who is passionate about creating great products to help millions of home buyers and sellers buy or sell a home without risk, stress, and uncertainty.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build and maintain APIs and tools that power Knock’s internal and customer-facing applications. Communicate your designs to fellow engineers.
  • Understand the data that power our applications, and be able to propose appropriate data models for new features.
  • Build new services from scratch, as well as maintain existing applications.
  • Provide secure and seamless integration of Knock’s applications to our SaaS partners.
  • Committed to good engineering practice of testing, logging, alerting and deployment processes.

Your skills and experience

  • U.S. based.
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum of 5 years of full lifecycle software development experience in Node.js, including coding, testing, troubleshooting, and deployment.
  • Strong desire to work at a rapidly growing startup and make it a success. Comfortable learning new technologies and tools.
  • Expert in Javascript (Node.js). Experience with various Node.js modules such as Hapi.js, lodash, async.
  • Experience with AWS ecosystem such as Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, and CloudWatch.
  • Strong SQL knowledge (Mysql or Postgres), familiarity with techniques to identify slow queries and debugging (We run on AWS RDS).

Bonus points for knowledge of:

  • Programming proficiency in Go or Python.
  • Docker ecosystem and container orchestration systems such as ECS or Kubernetes.

Why you'll love working here

  • An amazing opportunity to be an integral part of building the next multi-billion dollar consumer brand around the single largest purchase of our lives.
  • You will be working with a passionate, mission-driven team that is disrupting the status quo.
  • Competitive cash and equity compensation, full medical, dental, vision benefits, 401k, flexible work schedule, unlimited vacation (2 weeks mandatory) and sick time and are open to where you live and work.

Knock is an online home selling platform that uses data science to price homes accurately

Company type
IT Product
Company size
151-300 employees
Country
United States
Working days
Monday - Friday
Overtime policy
No OT