What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend Engineer position at Chefman?
About Chefman
Chefman is a leading global brand of small kitchen appliances.
We are a team of bold thinkers and doers, collaborative and passionate, creating innovative cooking experiences. We get excited about designing products that blend the best of utility, beauty, and quality, delighting millions of customers worldwide.
As the fastest growing brand in our space, you can go as far as your ambitions take you. Joining Chefman sets you up to do some of the most impactful work of your career.
About CHEF iQ
Arising from Chefman's innovative and bold mindset, the CHEF iQ brand was launched with the simple idea that cooking should be approachable and enjoyable by all. With intelligence and purpose, we are designing the next generation of innovative hardware, cutting edge software, and next level culinary content to deliver a seamless and immersive culinary experience that guarantees flawless results.
Joining CHEF iQ means becoming part of a passionate team of problem solvers pushing the boundaries of what was thought possible in the kitchen, redefining the future of cooking.
Job Description
We are seeking a Backend Engineer who will bring a deep passion and love of technology, along with excellent analytical skills and an innovative mind to contribute towards building the backend infrastructure for the state-of-the-art CHEF iQ® mobile application that will revolutionize the kitchen of the future and the CHEF iQ Console, which is our Core System supporting the work of our Culinary, UX and Firmware Teams working on CHEF iQ®.
We are seeking a Backend Engineer who will bring a deep passion and love of technology, along with excellent analytical skills and an innovative mind to contribute towards building the backend infrastructure for the state-of-the-art CHEF iQ® mobile application that will revolutionize the kitchen of the future and the CHEF iQ Console, which is our Core System supporting the work of our Culinary, UX and Firmware Teams working on CHEF iQ®.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with UX, Culinary, Video, Firmware, Software, and Hardware Engineering Teams to review requirements, design, configure and deploy new services
- Contribute to architecture, instrumentation and performance design decisions and carrying out POCs whenever required
- Produce well designed, high quality and reusable code by applying design patterns and best practices in software development for agility, reliability, and scalability of the services
- Proactively monitor performance and system health with observability and AWS tooling.
- Automate our infrastructure deployment and configuration management pipelines and create tooling so we can all work faster.
- Refactor code base from time to time to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability of the services
- Design and expand on SQL and NoSQL database schema
- Participate in code reviews
- Carry out testing and debugging
- Participate in daily standups and weekly sync-up meetings with stakeholders
- Participate in sprint planning sessions by reviewing goals and grooming stories.
- Scale architecture with modern technologies leveraging the AWS platform
- Effectively connecting to a culture of delivering high quality content around the brand vision
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or another related field
- 3 years of experience with JavaScript/Node
- 3 years of experience with a least one static language (e.g. Java, C/C ) and at least one dynamic language (e.g. Ruby, Python)
- 3 years designing and implementing RESTful APIs using microservice architecture
- 2 years of experience designing, building, and deploying solutions utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, Route 53, Lambda, IAM, ECS and API Gateway
- Mastery of multiple modern platforms such as Git, AWS, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Travis, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, IAC, etc.
- Proficient knowledge on SQL and NoSQL databases
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals and design patterns
- Proficiency in a Unix/Linux environment and experience working with CLI
- Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, and Chai
Desired Skills and Experience
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 2 years designing and implementing GraphQL APIs using microservice architecture
- Experience with NestJS framework
- AWS Cloud and/or Terraform certifications and trainings
- Familiarity with data science techniques, hands-on experience with ML frameworks and algorithms
