Job description

Hello! Are you ready to Work from Home and transform your career?

We're looking for a Back End Engineer to join the engineering team at Modus. Want to help our clients build awesome solutions to accomplish their goals and vision? Are you interested in working from home with some of the best talents on the planet? Then keep reading.

About You

You love building great software. Your work could be supporting new feature development, migrating existing features, or creating APIs. You'll have a primary focus on backend development in NodeJS, though you may need to jump into the frontend from time to time. Our client’s tech stack is TypeScript, React, NodeJS, and AWS. 

You have strong development experience working with large and demonstrable projects and passionate about the latest industry trends, innovations occurring in web-based, and RESTful products. You have designed, developed, and tested software components using NodeJS, React, and have extensively worked in API Layer: AWS API Gateway & Lambda – Typescript with exposure to DynamoDB, Elasticsearch.

You relish creating high-quality code from the comfort of your own home. Your engineering projects will focus on understanding customers' needs and translating those needs from product specifications into functional, production-ready code. You'll have the opportunity to ship code daily that will be used by customers.

You love learning. Engineering is an ever-evolving world. You enjoy playing with new tech and exploring areas that you might not have experience with yet.  You are self-driven, self-learner willing to share knowledge, and participate actively in your community.

Having overlap with your team is critical when working in a global remote team. Modus requires all team members to overlap with EST morning hours daily. In addition, reliable high-speed internet is a must and having a machine to work in that meets the following criteria:  Mac running Mac OS or a Windows machine running Windows 10Pro.

Linux is required, one of the following: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or higher, Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS 6 or higher, Fedora 25 or higher, Debian 8.0 or higher.

Additionally, as part of this role, you will be expected to adhere to our customer's information security requirements. This includes but is not limited to installing BitDefender endpoint security, provided by Modus Create on the machine you will be connecting to the client's network and systems with. BitDefender provides the following features: AntiVirus/AntiMalware, Intrusion detection systems, Blocking of Phishing/compromised websites, Full Disk Encryption (using native tools to the operating system), Disables external storage, Automatic patch deployment and Windows risk management.