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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. \n\nOpen 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. \n\nOur 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). \n\nPAR 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. \n\nSuccessful 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. \n\nResponsibilities \n\nWorking with the team, design and implement new functionality based on product objectives and requirements. \n\nWork 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. \n\nWork 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. \n\nExpand APIs and business logic, and as needed write or revise customer-facing API documentation. \n\nWork 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. \n\nSupport operations and infrastructure teams for issue resolution on relevant Open Commerce applications or services running in production environments.\nQualifications \n\nPractical experience building systems in Node.js \n\nAt least 5 years industry experience or equivalent \n\nExperience building and maintaining backend APIs, including design, implementation, evolution, and maintenance \n\nFamiliarity with TypeScript, or similar modern strongly-typed language \n\nProficiency using both relational and non-relational database technologies \n\nStrong understanding and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing \n\nBasic knowledge Docker and Kubernetes \n\nFamiliarity with OAuth and JWT \n\nSome experience with front-end JS technologies, esp. 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