The Highlights App

🤖 Full-Stack Typescript Engineer in The Highlights App

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The Highlights App. Your favorite sports highlights in one app

We are building the most user friendly and best user experience app to watch and enjoy user favorite sports video highlights. We believe in modern experience, user obsessives and in pushing the video consumption experience to the the limit.

Team work

We work as a team, we work collaborative, we are honest, we trust each other and we are always looking for the best solution overall... If you share this spirit or you think someone else share it, join us! We are looking for talent who wants to make difference, autonomous but with very good communication and sync skills along the team.

Responsabilities

  • Develop and deploy power Typescript / NodeJS Backend services in order to evolve features.
  • Develop and provide API services to App and Users.
  • Develop, maintain and deploy Terraform receipts in order to manage infrastructure.
  • Follow best practices regarding software development engineering including Unit testing creation, documentation, definition, among others.
  • Kanban / Scrum member tasks, such as update description, status, dependencies, estimation, among others.
  • Report directly to our head of product & technology
  • Resolve support requests on a day-to-day basis.
  • Balance speed and quality, with a focus on tangible results.

Qualifications

We are looking for an Engineer who is capable to build systems from scratch, follow best practices and agile since project administration point of view. You need to be team aware and communicate constantly but also be autonomous in terms of looking and proposing solutions.
You will be part of the early team, working directly with the head of product and tech and founder team. You will need to solve interesting problems regarding API development, microservices communication, k8s deployment and administration, integrations with 3rd parties, video process challenges and user experience very demanding and scalable services. This is an incredible opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the future of The Highlights App.

Soft skills
  • Agile and Engineering best practices follower.
  • Neat and organized person: Use team tool and be good updating statuses.
  • Excellent team communication and sync skills: We work fully remote and be in sync is very important to be a team.
  • English: You need to be able to understand read and spoken English also be able to write in a fluent way. Talking English is important but not the most.

Technical Skills
  • 3+ years experience as a fullstack developer solving problems.
  • Typescript / NodeJS knowledge
  • Unit testing understanding and implementer
  • NodeJS framework experience such as NestJS, ExpressJS, Strapi, among others.
  • Microservices in production experience: Event-driven, Queue or gRPC communication patterns
  • GraphQL knowledge
  • HTTP protocol knowledge.
  • CD/CI Knowledge: Better if GitHub actions
  • Gitflow experience
  • Frontend apps interaction and integration with backend systems understanding
  • Linux / Unix based operating system and services understanding
  • Dockerization and kubernetes knowledge
  • Experience with Cloud Platform providers such as GCP, AWS, DigitalOcean, among others
  • PostgreSQL experience or other SQL

Optionals skills

You are practically in if you also accomplish 3 or 4 of the items of the list below
  • Integration testing knowledge
  • No SQL Databases knowledge / experience
  • Machine Learning experience (TensorFlow, Cloud, etc.)
  • ReactJS / React-Native or other framework notions.
  • Architecture as Code, Terraform or similar experience
  • Attention to detail
  • Flexible and focused on solutions
  • CDN
  • Video Process experience

Benefits

  • Health insurance bonus
  • Fully remote for ever
  • Stock option plan
  • Extra Personal Time Off days.

Fully remote You can work from anywhere in the world.
Flexible hours Flexible schedule and freedom for attending family needs or personal errands.
Health coverage The Highlights App pays or copays health insurance for employees.
Vacation over legal The Highlights App gives you paid vacations over the legal minimum.

Remote work policy

Fully remote

Candidates can reside anywhere in the world.

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