Staff Full-Stack Developer at Okra

As a senior engineer in the team, you will be responsible for leading key products and features, as well as initiatives to level up our overall software quality. You will be key in influencing your team members and fostering a world-class team by applying your skills and experience to build extensible, scalable, maintainable, performant, and secure financial systems.

What you will do:

• Take full technical ownership of one or more features or products
• Support product ideation with technical insight
• Help convert product requirements into a technical approach
• Help break down ambitious goals into small, actionable iterations
• Support architecture and development best practice decisions
• Help set new technical standards and lead their adoption
• Contribute to multiple frontend and backend repositories
• Review contributions from other team members and other teams
• Work with other teams to integrate with multiple systems
• Coach and mentor junior developers

What will help you succeed:

• Multiple years of experience as a Senior Full-stack Developer
• Good understanding of Okra's current stack of Node.js, React, MongoDB, Kafka, Puppeteer, Docker, and Socket.io
• Deep expertise in at least one of the components of the Okra stack
• Hands-on experience in integrating with banks and other financial institutions
• Understanding of industry-specific regulations and best practices
• Understanding of established frontend, API, and database best practices
• Enjoying solving problems that have no direct or obvious solution.
• Strong skills in troubleshooting and debugging in complex systems
• Ability to collaborate with both business and technical partners

Nice to have:

• Experience with web and application scraping
• Experience working with and migrating to TypeScript
• Test-driven development experience
• Experience working with microservices and async integration patterns