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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJob Title: Lead Software Engineer - Backend\n\n\n\nLocation: Corporate\n\n\n\n\n\nDepartment: Information Technology\n\n\n\nFLSA: Exempt\n\n\n\n\n\nBand: Specialist\n\n\n\nJob Last Reviewed: Aug 2021\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJob Summary: The Backend Technical Lead will be actively involved in leading the design, development and support of backend systems within Wawa. As a technical lead in a given area, this role would work with appropriate product owners to define and design solutions to meet the business needs while working with and mentoring a team to implement the solution and ensure it continues to meet expectations.\n\n\nPrincipal Duties:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n· Operate as a key technical resource in an agile team, working with product owners and other team members to design and implement features that meet the business and technical requirements.\n\n· Provide a leadership and mentoring role for other team members to continually improve the team and ensure that individuals grow with the organization.\n\n· Complete technical designs as required that provide a detailed view of a solution and a solution ecosystem that can then be implemented and evolve as business and technical needs change.\n\n· Decompose abstract business features into associated stories with the product owner to implement with the team using agile delivery.\n\n· Define RESTful APIs and Domain Events using industry standards.\n\n· Apply DevOps techniques to deliver code quickly and securely in a cloud-based PCI environment.\n\n· Work with team members to define and implement test plans and automation using techniques like TDD and BDD.\n\n· Operate in a cloud-based PCI regulated environment and collaborate with other teams to ensure security and security standards are always considered with every change.\n\n· Participate in community of practice with other engineers to help drive the technical roadmap of the organization.\n\n· Be responsible for ensuring performance metrics are maintained and performance SLAs are met. This includes designing and implementing performance test automation.\n\n· Be responsible for monitoring and observability of owned systems including monitoring for abnormalities and alerting. \n\n· Collaborating with L1/L2/L3 teams to drive a resolution and root cause analysis.\n\n· Ensure all documentation is up to date to support teams and systems including designs, runbooks and developer guides.\n\n· Stay up to date with relevant technologies and software development trends.\n\n· Evaluate tools and platforms for fit and ensure the tools and platforms are supported and approved for use within Wawa.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBasic Qualifications:\n\n\n\n* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a technical discipline preferred (e.g., engineering) or equivalent.\n\n* A minimum of 7 years experience of relevant experience\n\n* Polyglot knowledge of multiple programming languages with a focus on Java.\n\n* Fluent in multiple technologies (Frameworks, Java, JavaScript, SpringBoot, REST API, Graph QL, SQL, NoSQL, Graph DB’s, etc.).\n\n\n\n\n\nDesired Qualifications:\n\n\n\n* Understanding of retail and retail systems and processes.\n\n* Understanding of SOLID and other OO design principles.\n\n* Knowledge and experience with building RESTful APIs that are secure, isolated and event driven.\n\n* Experience with OpenAPI and API first development.\n\n* Understanding of microservices architecture patterns pattern like Service Discovery/API Gateway/Domain Driven Design etc\n\n* Strong hands on usage of containers including tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ECS/ECR, OpenShift, LXC and other related technologies and tools.\n\n* Hands on knowledge of event driven architectures including technologies like Avro, Kafka, Kinesis as well as RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ.\n\n* Hands on with automated testing frameworks and tooling to support BDD, TDD and ATDD including Cucumber, Postman etc.\n\n* Knowledge and practical experience of database change management tools like but not limited to Liquibase and FlywayDB.\n\n* Knowledge and use of performance testing techniques as well as tools including k6, Gatling/Locust/JMeter.\n\n* Understanding of cloud IaaS technologies (AWS) including VPCs, Subnets, IAM, SG, RDS, MSK, EKS.\n\n* Experience with security mechanisms including mTLS, x509, OpenID Connect, JWT/JWE, OAuth2, PEP/PDP, SAML, WS-Security, Basic Auth and ABAC/RBAC based policies.\n\n* Experience with continuous delivery (CD) concepts including CodeFresh, Jenkins, GitLab, Travis CI, GoCD and others.\n\n* Experience with Linux scripting including Bash and KShell.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Executive, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, Cloud, API, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nBackground Information- Job Specific\n\n\nBackground The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is seeking talented and creative individuals to contribute to the development and maintenance of its online applications (HPC.tools). Within OCHA, the Assessment, Planning and Monitoring Branch (APMB) is responsible for helping OCHA’s network of country offices and humanitarian partners to implement the humanitarian programme cycle (HPC). APMB, in partnership with OCHA’s Information Services Branch (ISB) is engaged in a multi-year transformation project to improve the suite of information management tools/systems and that support the HPC. This includes data management applications for project submission and review, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian response, and financial tracking, amongst others. These applications are developed on a Javascript stack using PostgreSQL, Node.js, AngularJS and Angular, and provide data to a public API and two Drupal websites: Financial Tracking Service (fts.unocha.org) and Humanitarian InSight (hum-insight.info). \n\nThe successful candidate will be working as a developer in a small team of both senior and junior backend and frontend developers, and will work either as a full stack developer or (depending on skillsets) with a particular emphasis on frontend or backend work. In addition to programming, the successful candidate may also be involved in the coordination and oversight of the developer team or members thereof, as well as contribute to sprint and release planning. While the position is home-based, occasional travel to Geneva, Switzerland might be required. The successful candidate will report to the Information Systems Officer, Monitoring Platforms and Tools Section (MATS), in Geneva and work collaboratively with colleagues in OCHA Headquarters locations, as well as other developers working on this and other OCHA projects.\n\n\n\nFunctional Responsibilities:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* \n\nDesign, implement and manage solutions for web applications including system architecture, database models and coding standards\n\n\n* \n\nDevelop, iteratively improve and maintain existing and new HPC applications using AngularJS (1.5 and above), Angular (7 and above), Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker and Solr \n\n\n* \n\nDiscuss and improve specifications in conjunction with the project manager and business owners\n\n\n* \n\nContribute to Agile sprint and release planning \n\n\n* \n\nReview code submitted by team members using the Git workflow model \n\n\n* \n\nDevelop and review unit tests\n\n\n* \n\nWork closely with the OCHA-wide infrastructure team for code deployments, troubleshooting and other related issues.\n\n\n* \n\nDevelop and review technical documentation for developers and application administrators to support and maintain the system\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* \n\nContribute to the wider OCHA software development effort, including participation in regular knowledge interchange, joint events etc.\n\n\n* \n\nAssist with data migrations as needed\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEducation/Experience/Language Requirements:\n\n\nEducation\n\n\n* \n\nAdvanced-level university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in computer science, software engineering, information systems, mathematics, statistics or related field. \n\n\n* \n\nA first-level university degree in combination with additional two years, a technical/professional diploma with additional four years, or a secondary school diploma with additional six years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced-level university degree.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWork Experience \n\nRequired:\n\n\n* \n\nAt least 2 years of relevant experience is required of online database application development and implementation.\n\n\n* \n\nMinimum of 2 years functional programming in JavaScript and libraries on dynamic interactive websites.\n\n\n* \n\nMinimum of 2 years’ experience of developing on a Linux environment.\n\n\n* \n\nDemonstrated experience in web development projects in a consulting or professional services environment, working with cross-functional teams.\n\n\n* \n\nExperience in development of web applications using RESTful API backends\n\n\n* \n\nExperience of code versioning using Git workflow and sprint/release planning\n\n\n* \n\nExperience working both independently and in collaboration with remote, geographically diverse teams - must be very comfortable working via e-mail, chat, IRC, audio/video conference etc.\n\n\n\n\n\nDesirable:\n\nThe successful candidate will also have experience in as many as possible of:\n\n\n* \n\nDeveloping with AngularJS (v1.5 and later)\n\n\n* \n\nDeveloping with Angular (v7 and later)\n\n\n* \n\nDeveloping with Node.js\n\n\n* \n\nDeveloping with SQL-based open-source databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL\n\n\n* \n\nUse of Sequelize or similar ORM\n\n\n* \n\nCSS and use of pre-processors such as SASS or LESS\n\n\n* \n\nManagement of dependencies, code deployment to various environments and development workflow.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* \n\nWorking on projects using an agile framework \n\n\n* \n\nExperience of developing web applications in other programming languages would be beneficial.\n\n\n* \n\nSome knowledge of Drupal-based websites, particularly regarding integration of database applications with Drupal front-ends, and website development in PHP would be an asset.\n\n\n* \n\nSome experience working with the public or not-for-profit sector would be an asset.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLanguages\n\n\n* Intermediate or fluent knowledge of English is required.\n\n* Knowledge of another UN language (Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese and French) is an asset.\n\n\n\n\n\nOther considerations\n\nAs this is a home-based role, the successful candidate will need to provide their own workspace, including high-speed internet connection and a local development environment running on Linux or MacOS.\n\nContract type/level and duration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Contract type: INternational Individual Contractor Agreement\n\n* Contract level: IICA-1/ICSC-9\n\n* Contract duration: full-time for an initial period of six months, to be extended depending on satisfactory performance evaluation.\n\n* Duty Station: home-based, occasional travel to Geneva, Switzerland might be required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Considerations\n\n\n* Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time\n\n* Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.\n\n* Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.\n\n* Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.\n\n* The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  \n\n\n\n\nIt is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns. \nRecruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Developer, Digital Nomad, English, PHP, Git, Angular, Drupal, API, Travel, Senior, Junior, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n