NodeJS Developer

Webantic are an award-winning cloud software consultancy based in Manchester. From designing customer engagement strategies and service and experience design to architecting technical solutions in response to complex problems, our objective is to help clients navigate the commercial challenges of user-centric application design and build, and build great software in the process.

We have a smart and creative environment, driven by honesty and collaboration. As we grow we're looking for someone comfortable building NodeJS backends to join the team.

We're open to either quite senior or fairly junior applications for this position. Give us a ring or apply below and we can have a chat about how you'd fit in.

Role Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining NodeJS-based applications and websites
• Supporting existing applications/websites by building new features/functionality.
• Contributing to project conversations and development discussions, particularly around capacity-planning, data-modelling, system architecture and schema design.
• Working closely with stakeholders, project managers and front-end developers to ensure your various APIs and associated functionality can cater to the project requirements.
• Keeping abreast of the latest development techniques and industry developments and collaborating with Webantic to develop a personal learning roadmap.

Desired Skills/Experience

• Strong NodeJS knowledge (including associated things like NPM and core packages)
• Solid understanding of HTTP principles
• Comfortable with Git
• Ability to work with relational and non-relational databases (particularly, PostgreSQL and MongoDB)
• Ability to build RESTful APIs and document them
• Ability to write unit and integration tests
• Ability to work with websockets.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels with clients and the various disciplines within the Webantic team.
• Bonus: Strong HTML/CSS skills
• Bonus: Confident with client-side JavaScript
• Bonus: Understanding of responsive design principles
• Bonus: Experience with AWS or other public cloud services.
• Bonus: Experience of working with CI systems (e.g. Codeship, Jenkins)

Webantic Values

At Webantic we only hire people who embody (and can demonstrate thus) our values. While it might seem cheesy, our values are core to everything we do and we consider them to be one of the most important indicators of a candidate’s suitability when hiring.

• Have pride and passion. Everything you do is a reflection of you. A paycheque should be an excuse to do what you love, not the other way around.
• Be accountable. To own something is to be responsible for it. At Webantic there's no such thing as "someone else's problem"
• Never stop learning. In our industry more than most, to stop moving forward is to start moving backwards. Everything we do should be driven by curiosity and experimentation.
• Win (and lose) together. We are greater together, in success and failure.