Responsibilities: 

• Building backend services and solutions for our digital portfolio and digital platforms that enable our customers to collect, process and visualize data. 
• Develop reliable microservices for web application backends. 
• Developing new reusable code and libraries for future use, and ensuring the technical feasibility of existing and future BE designs. 
• Deliver error-free code through testing and working with QA teams, in order to meet the quality standards. 
• Maintenance of existing software and code. You will be required to work and communicate with team members and product owners to ensure user requirements are understood, and design expectations are met. 

Requirements: 

5+ years of recent hands-on coding and software design Python

• Experience with working in containerized environments. API use, design, and development such as for RESTful. 
• Familiar with: Database technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Influx, Redis Web frameworks Flask, Django 
• Message brokers like RabbitMQ WebSockets protocol 
• Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git. An analytical mindset. 
• Proven organizational and time management skills. 
• Curious, and willing to learn new technologies. 
• Comfortable working in an agile environment. 
• Good communication and teamwork skills; working proficiency in English (written and spoken). 
• Self-motivating, able to assume responsibility and work autonomously in a professional manner. 
• Willingness to learn new languages, frameworks, and technologies. 

Nice to have:

• Experience with Kubernetes. 
• Experience with Jira and Confluence. 
• Experience with AWS/Azure, other cloud platforms. 
• Experience with ModBus protocol. Experience with NumPy. 
• Experience with Swagger.

Project

An eCommerce platform to sell company's adhesive products across the globe. It enables new capabilities powering new-generation recommendation engines that drive growth.

Main responsibilities

·       Write high-quality code by following Angular/Typescript best practices and the company internal guidelines. 

·       Support the team by doing code reviews and providing new features to the project.

·       Attend technical meetings to align with other technical teams. 

·       Be available for your colleagues when your support is needed. 

·       Provide user interfaces that comply with the designs and wireframes. 

·       Fix bugs as efficiently as possible. 

·       Have an interest in complex architectures and their understanding.

·     The service is delivered using an agile working method (2 weeks sprints), plus daily meetings with the team and the bi-weekly sprint planning where all details will be defined per sprint, and all task-related delivery will be specified in the acceptance criteria of each ticket.

Requrements

·       5+ years in web development with large codebases. 

·       3+ years with a special focus on Angular. 

·       Proficient in HTML / CSS / ECMAScript standards. 

·       Proficient in Git. 

·       Familiar with the Scrum methodology. 

Must have experience

·       Master the Angular framework, Typescript, and RxJS.

·       Experience in both unit and e2e testing.

·       Experience in at least two other technologies from the Angular ecosystem (e.g., NGRX, Universal, Material).

·       Knowledge of Node and npm. 

Nice to have

·       Experience in Jest and/or Cypress.

·       Knowledge of Module Federation and Web Components.

·       Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, especially with Azure DevOps.

·       Passion for the latest features and interest in the Front-End community.

Project description and requirements for Background to the assignment

The company provides Data Science support for chemistry product development and support R&D. This includes the design and development of production-ready web application to serve the developed data science model to the end-user and other things.

Therefore, the development requires a secure setup of Azure services according to an existing system architecture. To keep compliance with company's standards, the setup needs to be automated using Terraform and should follow Microsoft recommendations for security and networking. There is also a need for a proper test environment concept and deployment automation for the web application components according to the concept.

Consequently, we need an expert with sufficient expertise in connection with Azure Serverless technologies in a secure setup and their automated deployment, handling of test environment as well as logging and monitoring of serverless applications.

Backlog items will be assigned in Azure DevOps containing business requirements and acceptance criteria.

Workload based on Agile environment, 2 weeks sprints. With Sprint meetings once in two weeks and Daily meetings.

Tasks

Automation of build and deployment of web app components based on Docker container and Azure serverless technologies

• Staged deployment and test environment concept for App Service apps and Function App APIs
• Concept for deployment and hosting of API specs
• Concept for deployment and hosting of code documentation
• Concept for logging and monitoring of serverless functions App Service apps and Function App APIs

Automation of Azure services provisioning based on Terraform

• Setup of Azure App Service, Function App under consideration of Azure security recommendations and automation via Terraform
• Setup of Cosmos DB under consideration of Azure security recommendations and automation via Terraform

Documentation of technical implementation which is subject to approval by the client.