Senior Backend Engineer

About Freespace* (a.k.a. Workplace Fabric)

Workplace Fabric develops solutions that makes workplaces intelligent. Our solutions help increase productivity of office workers while helping to lower the cost of real estate. Our Flagship

product Freespace is installed in over 40 cities around the world and serves over 30,000 people every day. Starting with the first deployment in March 2016 we have rapidly grown with our solution being rolled out globally while continuing to stay cash positive. With successes at several blue-chip clients Workplace Fabric has carved a unique leadership position in workplace management and employee engagement SaaS solutions.

*To find out more, follow us on social media – LinkedIn & Facebook @ workplace-fabric

What is on our offer?

An absolutely action packed, fun, and demanding workplace lets our employees to thrive in a team-based environment with passion, fun, pride and teamwork as our core values.

We can offer you career opportunities to challenge, develop and exceed your aspirations with training and development throughout your career.

Life is never dull at Freespace as there is always something to learn, constantly pushing you to develop your skills and take on the next exciting challenge.

Profile Brief:

You will be an experienced Backend Engineer with an interest in data and analytics, developing our fast growing Analytics Team. Working closely as an active team member, having ownership & accountability to develop analytics stories, in delivering timely projects through Scrum. Working with product owners and team leads to clarifying requirements, challenge assumptions in order to ensure successful executions and push the client analytics to its best.

Key Skills and Experience

Required Skills: JavaScript (ES6+), SQL, Nodejs, AWS (Lambda, Athena, S3)

Good to have: TypeScript, IoT, AWS Certifications

Experience: 4-6 years

Data processing and manipulation expert

Able to easily comprehend and write complex & efficient SQL queries

Ability to understand, design and fully document end-to-end scalable IoT systems

Expert in in building Well-Architected solutions using AWS Services (eg Lambda, Athena, S3 etc)

Master in JavaScript with excellent understanding of asynchronous patterns

Comfortable with of ES6+, TypeScript & emerging web technologies

Experience of building secure, metered REST APIs and connectors for BI tools like Tableau and PowerBI

Hands-on programmer

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Key Behaviours

Be passionate about understanding the business problem and using data to tell the stories in delivering solutions which drive client decisions.

Lead by example by demonstrating best practice and mentoring of team members

Clear thinker with a systematic problem-solving approach, breaking the problem down into simple achievable and realistically estimated steps

Seeing a project through from conception into production and support ensuring quality throughout.

Ensure high standards by instilling  data quality checks, code reviews and documentation in work and team practices.

Able to challenge solutions and processes in creating the best products and environment to work.

Unafraid to own mistakes

Customer focussed