Senior NodeJS Engineer

Overview
Come join us as we scale our retail and commerce loyalty platform! PAR Retail is looking for a Senior NodeJS engineer on its expanding product engineering team as we build and grow our Open Commerce enterprise software-as-a-service platform.

Open Commerce is a technology suite that enables marketing professionals in the fuel & convenience industry to create real-time, hyper-personalized offers and customer interactions across a variety of channels (mobile, web, SMS, and in-person) to drive customer behavior toward a desired goal.

Our technology bridges financial payment providers, retail fuel pump technology, and customer experience by wrapping low-level standards-compliant integrations with powerful software abstractions on an ultra-modern software platform. Our platform services and applications are built using a broad swath of technologies (Typescript, NodeJS, Ruby, React, and others), interconnected via GraphQL and RabbitMQ, and run in AWS using Terraform, Helm and Kubernetes (via EKS).

PAR Retail has its headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) and leverages a diverse distributed product engineering and operations team across the United States and Ukraine. PAR Retail offers highly competitive compensation and benefits, as well as an engineering-friendly and product-centric culture. On PAR Retail’s Open Commerce team, we embrace a deeply collaborative software product development process where engineering, design, and product collaborate to shape and ship new functionality.
Successful candidates will enjoy PAR Retail’s friendly and flexible culture, and embrace our relentless drive to excellence and goal of providing the #1 retail marketing platform in the fuel & convenience industry and beyond.

Responsibilities
Working with the team, design and implement new functionality based on product objectives and requirements.
Work with the broader product engineering team to plan and coordinate feature and functionality improvements, as well as resolve bugs and execute technical enhancements, that cross-cut large parts of our platform.
Work to continually learn, improve technology skills, expand knowledge of the Open Commerce platform technologies, and gain increasing versatility across the breadth of our platform systems.
Expand APIs and business logic, and as needed write or revise customer-facing API documentation.
Work with our infrastructure team to enable and enhance highly-available, performant, and well-instrumented backend applications and services that run in our customer environments at substantial scale.
Support operations and infrastructure teams for issue resolution on relevant Open Commerce applications or services running in production environments.

Qualifications
Practical experience building systems in Node.js
At least 5 years industry experience or equivalent
Experience building and maintaining backend APIs, including design, implementation, evolution, and maintenance
Familiarity with TypeScript, or similar modern strongly-typed language
Proficiency using both relational and non-relational database technologies
Strong understanding and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
Basic knowledge Docker and Kubernetes
Familiarity with OAuth and JWT
Some experience with front-end JS technologies, esp. React or Angular
An ability to work in service-based architectures
Highly independent and able to effectively self-organize and prioritize work
The ability to write clean code, and the discipline to write effective automated unit tests in order to deliver high-quality system improvements
An ability to effectively break down larger bodies of work for delivery as a series of small, self-contained changes to the system
Excellent spoken and written communication skills
BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent years of professional working experience

Bonus Points
Experience with Nest.js and/or GraphQL
Experience with Ruby on Rails
Experience with AWS
Experience working in distributed teams
Experience in the retail and/or fuel & convenience industries

PAR Retail Offers:
- Long-term employment;
- Competitive compensation with regular performance-based salary and career development reviews;
- Paid vacations and sick leaves;
- Flexible working hours;
- A unique and friendly environment where everyone can explore and learn new technologies.