Backend Developer

CitizenShipper is looking for talented professionals to join our growing team.

What we are looking for

• 5+ years experience building APIs and backends with Node.js

• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript (ES6+)

• Excellent knowledge of Typescript and a preference for static typing

• Experience with testing frameworks and a strong desire to write a lot of tests

• Experience with relational and non-relational databases

• Able to bring up a new (micro)service from scratch to fulfill product requirements

• Fluent in English (candidates who cannot communicate in English will be rejected)

• Good team player

• Strong communication skills

• Ability to mentor less experienced colleagues

• Self-motivated and proactive

In your role you will

• Build and maintain our backend services

• Collaborate with frontend developers to build APIs for their needs

• Collaborate with ops engineers to help deploy our services to the cloud

• Design database schemas and database technologies used by our services

• Collaborate with data science team to provide them with the data they need

• Improve our CI/CD pipelines

• Collaborate with other stakeholders

Bonus points for

• Experience with working remotely

• Experience with AWS

• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions or Gitlab CI

• Experience with other backend technologies and languages such as Elixir, Golang, Python, Ruby etc.

• Huge bonus for experience with Rust

• Huge bonus for experience with PostGIS or other geospatial databases

• Passionate about functional programming

• Proven experience developing and building applications (github link on repo)

About us

As a share-economy transportation marketplace, CitizenShipper connects people who need items delivered with the drivers able to complete the delivery. Our main focus is on facilitating pet transportation – to date, we’ve helped reunite thousands of owners with their pets.

Why join us?

🌎 Our team is multicultural and international

😎 We have a “minimal meetings” culture

🤗 We have a flat organization without micromanaging.

👩‍💻 Everyone works remotely (from home)

🚀 We’re still growing, and you have a lot of room to grow with us

💚 Generous parental (maternity and paternity) leave policy - up to 14 weeks!

📚 $50/month book allowance

👨‍🏫 $2,000/year Professional development budget

🏝 Full paid light work week (max 10-15 hours) each quarter