Our Company
We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
The team
Looking for a Node.js/Typescript engineer to work in a small, agile team. The team creates REST and event-driven microservices that focus on using caching and reporting to improve our customers’ experience. The team works at scaling, handing many millions of REST and Kafka events each day.
Engineers on this team create new microservices and improve existing microservices. Projects are usually of considerable complexity and require a mastery of development tools. Engineers are expected to design and implement scalable, dependable systems as needed. As this is a small team, engineers must be self-starters, capable of handling responsibility and making decisions.
The role
Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
Code and perform unit and integration testing of software to ensure proper and efficient execution and adherence to business and technical requirements.
Code, test, debug, and enhance software.
Write programs according to specifications, and define specifications for complex programs.
Monitor and repair critical systems on an as needed basis.
Develop and maintain technical documentation.
Serve as final escalation point to resolve incidents and problems for production applications and web services supported by the team in accordance with identified Service Level Agreements.
Collaborate with internal customers, technical and architecture teams to solve complex software problems.
Provide system users and management with system analysis and improvement recommendations.
Identify and recommend system design/requirements needs for software enhancements.
Implement, monitor, test, and audit new software programs to maximize efficiency of software systems.
Participate in continuous performance improvement sessions to discuss opportunities to improve processes and/or standards.
Coordinate with technical teams to analyze and resolve software related problems causing operational difficulties, advising on specialized features and functions.
Maximize the efficiency of the various software systems by implementing, monitoring, testing and auditing new software programs.
Follow established configuration/change control processes.
Collaborate with customers and internal/external technical teams to identify software problems and communicate remediation plans
Mentor and coach junior team members.
What you’ll bring
Technologies
• Strong experience with Node.js and Typescript
• Understanding of DynamoDB or other key-value stores and NoSQL databases
• Experience using AWS managed services
• Experience with caching architectures, particularly Redis
• Strong experience with containerization and container orchestration, (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, Argo, etc).
• Experience with monitoring technologies (Splunk, Instana, Datadog, Prometheus, etc).
• Knowledge of API documentation, especially Swagger (OpenAPI)
• Experience using CI/CD automation (Jenkins, Gitlab)
Skills/Abilities and Knowledge
• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
• Strong experience working with DevOps engineers to build and deploy infrastructure with cloud deployment technologies.
• Strong Understanding of Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
• Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision.
• Experience with building and designing REST APIs.
• Experience with building and designing event-driven systems.
• Experience with software security principles and patterns.
• Ability to collaborate with and contribute to a common culture of excellence.
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks.
• Must be capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision.
Education
BA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
About us
We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.
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Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
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