Backend Developer ExpressJS

About this role

Job Description: Our client is a leading NFT platform for Luxury brands. They are convinced that the progressive migration of our social life to the Metaverse will only accelerate. In an era of conscious consumerism, and overall saturation, the Metaverse opens vast opportunities for Luxury Brands to develop a new business segment around digital assets and connect with an entire new generation of users. They are on a mission to help Brands enter this new market, while providing fans with a reference marketplace to purchase, trade, and showcase NFTs issued by Luxury brands.

In essence, our client sits at the intersection of Luxury, and 3 generation-defining trends: gaming, blockchain and metaverse. Our client was formed in July 2021 by a team of serial entrepreneurs with deep backgrounds in crypto and luxury. We raised a 2.2m seed round in August from several venture capital investors, including Tioga Capital, White Star, Indico Capital, Shilling, as well as prominent business angels such as Formula E champion Félix da Costa.

The main office is incorporated in Portugal, with most of our team located in the Lisbon / Cascais area. But we also have team members working from the US, France and Switzerland - we are a remote-first company. They are looking for talented and motivated people who are willing to support the company structure for growth and success while keeping growing their own skills. The Backend Developer will be part of the Engineering Team.

Responsibilities: Participate in the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of applications and domains. Collaborate with the engineering teams to align and communicate the team's development and delivery process. Influence the decision towards a decentralised microservice architecture of the backend services. Deliver high-quality software features that meet coding and design patterns best practices. Follow DevOps best practices including continuous integration and unit testing, You build it, you ship it.

Contribute to setting the engineering best practices in writing maintainable and scalable code and influencing the team decisions. Emphasize on the team's operational excellence through automation and relevant operational best practices. Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify the technical requirements independently, assessing development estimates and design options Your mission: Create new solutions and components that are meant to answer a global scale Help develop a scalable and sustainable system throughout all our web and mobile products.