Who You Are
We’re looking for someone who often describes themself as both an entrepreneurial self-starter and a team-player. You can tackle a wide variety of initiatives, workstreams, and projects that call for critical thinking, creativity, and proactive communication. You can flow easily from writing code, to troubleshooting issues to assessing and analyzing applications and processes. You’re also results-oriented and enjoy working with others to achieve shared goals. Most importantly, you care about the details and possess a deep affinity for efficiency. You love problem solving and you’re adept at collaborating to find the best solutions.
Our Mission
Empower Creativity.
The connection between a user and their mobile device is unlike any other, and presents an obligation to rethink the way brands and consumers engage. CRAFTSMAN+ is breaking the mold and changing the rules of engagement. We are a global team of top-talent creators and technologists on a mission to develop a suite of tools that anyone can use to enable the highest levels of creativity, interactivity, and efficiency.
Partnering with some of the world’s largest brands, we plan, streamline, optimize and automate the creative process. For more info, check out our website!
What You’ll Do
- Design and implement scalable, RESTful APIs with CRUD operations
- Model and manage complex data relationships across services
- Implement role-based access control (RBAC) across endpoints
- Manage API versioning and support backward compatibility
- Build import/export functionality (e.g., CSV with type inference)
- Support soft delete and data archival strategies
- Own and maintain database schema migrations (e.g., Sequelize or similar)
- Apply caching strategies to improve performance
- Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code
- Contribute to technical design discussions and architecture planning
- Collaborate closely with Vue frontend engineers to ensure seamless integration
- Work with product managers to understand requirements and plan execution
What You Bring
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining APIs
- Strong proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript
- Experience with Sequelize (or similar ORM frameworks)
- Solid understanding of SQL and relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB)
- Experience designing and documenting REST APIs (Swagger/OpenAPI)
Proficiency with Git and CI/CD workflows - Experience implementing testing strategies (Unit, BDD, TDD)
- Understanding of serverless architectures and AWS (Lambda, EC2, RDS, S3)
- Familiarity with caching mechanisms like Redis or similar
Bonus Points
- Experience with GraphQL
- Familiarity with TypeScript
- Understanding of the full software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experience working with Vue.js applications
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