LATAM Senior Software Engineer (React & Node)

Praxent is a company focused on modernizing customer-facing software applications in the financial services industry. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance team capacity, mentor junior developers, and ensure successful delivery of projects through technical expertise and collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Enhance the team’s capacity to deliver assigned stories by end of sprint
• Ensure that Core Values are living and breathing throughout the project team
• Develop features requiring a novel technical design and act as a mentor to more junior developers through ad-hoc collaboration and structured code reviews
• Enhance the team’s capacity by documenting plans to anticipated risks/blockers, advancing best practices, and mentoring peers and more junior team members
• Serve as technical SME in the sprint, ensuring successful delivery of the sprint commitment by managing pipelines, environments, and oversight of key deliverables
• Present technical and sprint demos, such as completed API methods and automated deployment processes during sprint review meetings
• Demonstrate proficiency at two of the following: building attractive user interfaces, building data driven REST APIs, administering databases/cloud/servers
• Ensuring the team understands acceptance criteria, tracking daily progress, limit team’s QA kickback, deliver stories as assigned, find opportunities to increase capacity and velocity

Requirements:

• demonstrable proficiency with at least two of the following: building attractive user interfaces, building data driven REST APIs, administering databases/cloud/servers
• 5-8 years professional experience in relevant technology and projects, including ongoing adherence of best practices, experience managing DevOps pipelines, developing features with novel technical designs, and acting as a technical lead to a development team
• Expertise in modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries, ex: React, with a strong ability to build responsive and dynamic user interfaces, leveraging TypeScript for enhanced code quality and maintainability
• Extensive experience in building scalable server-side applications using Node.js, with a strong understanding of RESTful API design and implementation
• Experience presenting to client stakeholders and communicating technical and business value
• Experience understanding and articulating the business outcomes that your development projects impact
• Experience with coaching and mentoring, demonstrated through ad-hoc collaboration and structured code reviews
• may include intensive programs, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a equivalent experience
• We Care Deeply, Always Deliver, Never Settle, Do It Together, Own the Outcome, and approach every situation with a CAN DO mentality