40Seas operates at the intersection between Fintech and the global supply chain market. The company develops innovative financial solutions for the rapidly growing cross-border trade transactions world by leveraging cutting-edge technologies and a data-driven approach.

As a technical contributor and leader, you will be entrusted with ensuring the quality and delivery of API and data-driven services within our system. This will require working closely with your team, other engineering teams (web, DevOps, etc.) and partners to deliver a world-class experience for our customers. You will balance architectural decisions to account for delivery timeline, performance and long-term scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and building maintainable, extensible, performance-minded and scalable backend services / APIs
• Advocating for modern software engineering practices such as CI/CD, unit testing and automated deployments
• Mentoring and providing technical guidance to other team members
• Leading and participating in code reviews
• Influencing our product's technical direction with your ideas and expertise
  

Requirements‍

• A “player-coach” mentality that thrives on collaboration and creative thinking
• 5+ years of relevant experience
• 3+ years of Typescript, JavaScript and Node.js using microservices or Serverless architecture
• Experience with or solid understanding of NoSQL repositories (like MongoDB, Dynamo, etc.)
• Great written and oral communication skills
• Solid understanding of Agile software development processes
• Expertise in developing backend APIs for web-mobile, web and 3rd party partners
• This role may be hybrid or fully remote.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Multi-lingual data and global hosting environments (including China)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or similar experience
• Experience with frontend development such as React
• Experience with at least one more development language such as java/python/GO