About OffSec
Founded in 2007 by the creators of Kali Linux, OffSec (formerly known as Offensive Security) is the leading provider of continuous professional and workforce development, training, and education for cybersecurity practitioners. OffSec’s distinct pedagogy and practical, hands-on learning help organizations fill the infosec talent gap by training their teams on today’s most critical skills.
Become a part of our global presence and work from anywhere. With team members in over 40 countries, we believe in inspiring people of all backgrounds and communities. The OffSec team is composed of diverse, internationally published authors, conference speakers, and seasoned information technology professionals from both the private sector and governments worldwide.
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About the Job
The FullStack Developer will join the software development team to help lead the team in designing and implementing the development of our consumer-facing, high-traffic, e-commerce and learning management web platform. The FullStack Developer will spearhead the best practice of software development lifecycle including design principles, development processes and tools, testing methodology, deployment process, and the ongoing support and maintenance of our platform. This position will be responsible for coming up with standards for the team to follow, assisting teams as needed, and also writing code for various key modules of the platform.
Duties and responsibilities
- Develops software solutions by identifying user and system requirements for our customer-facing, high-traffic, e-commerce and learning management web platform
- Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
- Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
- Proposes and enforces best practices for software development lifecycle
- Proposes coding standards and guidelines for the team to follow and enforce them through code review process
- Supports and develops software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities
- Collaborates with team to brainstorm and creates new ideas and solutions
- Grows engineering teams by interviewing, recruiting and hiring
- Designs the new web platform where security is part of the design consideration from the start
- Ensures that the platform is designed and coded so ongoing deployment, support and maintenance can be streamlined, following the CI/CD process
- Proposes and sets key metrics for platform performance so these metrics can be monitored to measure the platform’s performance in terms of uptime, speed, etc..
- Performs technical analysis to support the effective and efficient development efforts
- Writes code for key modules of the platform
- Designs testing methodology including automated unit testing of the platform modules; able to do some testing if/when needed
- Communicates on project/task status clearly and effectively with the management team, development team, and project managers
- Moves fast, bias towards action, follows the cycle of coding, iterating, testing, deploying and optimizing websites
- Other duties as needed
Qualifications
- 7+ years of application development experience.
- Experience designing and architecting high traffic consumer web applications (e.g. SaaS, e-commerce)
- 5+ years of strong expertise in Node.js application design and development (ES6+ JavaScript & TypeScript).
- 3+ years of experience in modern responsive UI development using HTML5/CSS3 with MVVM frameworks (e.g. React.js, Vue.js, AngularJS).
- Strong experience of building RESTful web services.
- Hands-on experience with MySQL table design, querying, indexing, and debugging.
- Experience working with message queues (e.g. RabbitMQ, SQS) and distributed caching (e.g. Memcached, Redis)
- Experience in building solutions on top of AWS such as ECS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway and others.
- Strong attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills
- Experience in working with DevOps and Build pipelines (e.g. CI, CD).
- Hands on experience with agile development process
- Experience in python is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
Working conditions
This role is a full-time salaried position. Work hours for this position are flexible and will be performed from a home office.
Direct reports
This position has no direct reports.
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