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Progress Residential® is the largest providers of high-quality, single-family rental homes in the United States. With more than 90,000 homes across some of the fastest-growing markets, our residents appreciate the flexibility, freedom, and convenience of living in a single-family home without the obligations of home ownership.
Progress is committed to making the home rental process easy and enjoyable for the residents we serve by empowering our team members and investing in innovative systems and technology. Our portfolio has continued to grow substantially the past few years and we see increasing demand for professionally managed single-family rental homes and anticipate continued growth.
Employment with Progress Residential is conditional on a satisfactory background and drug screen.
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JOB SUMMARY
The Sr Backend Developer will be responsible for designing, building, and delivering highly performant, scalable services and customer experiences using backend technologies on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The environment is fast paced and time to market of applications is critical to the success of the organization.
This position will be part of a dynamic team that is dedicated to delivering applications for high-quality, on-time software releases leveraging best-of-breed agile and DevOps practices with a focus on how to enable the operations of those applications through a combination of infrastructure solutioning, continuous delivery & integration, and efficient system sustainment planning.
This role is responsible for working with our architects and peer developers on technical design of cloud and digital platforms, including hands-on full stack development (80% backend, 20% frontend). The developer must have a passion for developing and launching robust scalable products that are business and customer facing. This position should have a full understanding of the tools, platforms and technologies used to develop exceptional applications.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Hands-on development across a variety of technologies and platforms
Build highly performant, scalable, cloud-native microservices-based applications using technologies like AWS Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, Node.js, TypeScript, Key-Value Stores, and MongoDB
Evaluate new technology for inclusion in our stack
Develop proof-of-concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions
Support the refactoring and re-architecting of existing software
Work jointly with other developers to identify and create common reusable components
Drive technical consolidation and reduction of duplicate effort across projects
The candidate should have a strong understanding of agile software development and how that impacts the operations of software; and must participate in strategy discussion with all levels of management and business sponsors
Work closely with architects, engineering manager and other senior developers to understand the technology roadmap and assist in enforcing the enterprise architecture standards
Support testing & deployment cycles, including working with project managers to coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) and gathering feedback from pre-release testers.
Log, track, and manage issues, bugs, and enhancement/ features requests logged in JIRA.
Participate in software release and post-releaseactivities, including developing designs for proof of concepts.
Capture, mitigate and /or escalate risks & issues in a timely fashion
Ensure development standards and consistency of specifications across sub-systems
Write and/or review deliverables, solution blueprints, and architecture documentation
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent engineering field
6 - 8 years of solid development experience in building internet-scale web / mobile applications and public APIs
Expertise in designing highly-scalable and performant micro-services and storage layers using common frameworks, languages, and cloud infrastructure - using NodeJS frameworks, TypeScript, AWS Serverless, MongoDB
Experience in building Microservices & REST APIs with focus on System Design and Integration
Good understanding of Public Cloud Services preferably AWS
Good SQL and NoSQL skills
Prior experience in React, React Native, GraphQL or Salesforce platform is preferred
Experience with entire software development lifecycle (Agile, SDLC, Iterative)
Hands on experience with the different CICD tools - Jenkins, Github / BitBucket, Dockers, Containers, Build and Deploy tools
Strong communication skills (both verbal and written) and ability to communicate effectively with business owners
Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and ability to abstract functional requirements
Flexibility and positive attitude to achieve tight deadlines
Rapidly adapt and respond to changes in environment and priorities
Ability to work creatively, propose ideas and contribute to working groups
What you can expect from us:
Progress Residential® offers all the financial and non-financial incentives you would expect from an innovative real estate investment and management firm:
In addition to outstanding training, we host quarterly summits and town hall meetings to encourage growth, knowledge sharing and a good time. After all, it’s about progress, not perfection.
We offer competitive compensation, including a performance-based bonus.
Our generous benefits package includes comprehensive healthcare coverage for you and your family, parental leave, paid time off, 401k match, 10 paid holidays and much more.
Closing Statement:
This summary is not an all-inclusive description of job duties. Other job duties and responsibilities may also be assigned by the incumbent’s supervisor at any time based upon Company need.
Progress Residential® is a proud Equal Opportunity employer, m/f/d/v.
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