Engineer II, Software Dev.

Liquidity Services operates a B2B e-commerce marketplace platform for surplus assets. The Engineer II, Software Dev. designs, develops, and supports modern web applications and services using React, Next.js, Node.js, and AWS while maintaining enterprise platforms. The role contributes across the full software development lifecycle, supports production systems, and delivers scalable, reliable solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and provide solutions for complex software development tasks, providing design documentation as required
• ​Collaborate with business unit leadership to understand business requirements and translate into technical solutions
• ​Exhibit an active interest in how the business works to understand not just what work needs to be done, but why
• ​Participate in code reviews to ensure the quality of work delivered by the team meets or exceeds stakeholder expectations
• ​Provide support in production support issue resolution including root-cause analysis and corrective action plans
• ​Provide ongoing technical support for the Public facing and Internal IT technologies current and future. Understand and utilize the defined change control procedures, installation instructions and support request instructions
• ​Ensure the established monitoring alerts are responded to in a timely manner to ensure for system quality availability, security, performance and failures
• ​Break down any outages or quality issues to root causes and prevent recurrences by addressing root causes
• ​Participate in On Call and after-hours maintenance activities
• ​Engage in and work through major incidents (Sev1, Sev2, Sev3)
• ​Exhibit effective organizational skills, a focus on accuracy, and attention to detail
• ​Possess excellent analytical, problem solving, and troubleshooting abilities as well as creativity in coming up with outside-the-box solutions
• ​Conform to architectural and coding standards/conventions including concepts such as defensive programming. ​​

Requirements:

• • Four-year degree in a related field or equivalent experience​
• • ​​2-5 years of demonstrable professional experience on the Express js web stack​
• • Full-stack development experience using JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, REST APIs, Redis, and AWS services such as S3
• • Experience developing, supporting, and maintaining Node.js applications, including troubleshooting issues, resolving defects, and implementing enhancements
• • Experience developing responsive web applications using React and Next.js
• • ​Strong understanding of UI, cross-browser compatibility, web functions, and standards
• • ​Experience with common design and code patterns (e.g., dependency injection, singleton, factories, etc.)
• • ​Experience working on high-concurrency public web applications
• • ​Experience implementing industry best practices as they relate to code construction and web application security
• • ​Familiarity with the Bootstrap framework
• • ​​Experience optimizing a slow running application for better performance and speed ​​
• • Excellent verbal and written communication skills required
• • Skilled at understanding business and technical requirements, and converting them into working code
• • This position is primarily performed in a home office or other approved remote work environment. The employee is expected to maintain a safe, secure, and distraction-free workspace with reliable internet access. Duties primarily involve prolonged periods of sitting, working on a computer, and communicating via phone and video conferencing
• • The employee must be able to frequently use a computer, keyboard, mouse, and other standard office equipment, as well as communicate effectively with colleagues, customers, and business partners. Occasional lifting of office materials or equipment up to 15 pounds may be required
• • Occasional travel may be required for meetings, training, or business needs (up to 10%)
• • Experience with agile development environments and Scrum methodology a plus
• • Business domain experience in e-commerce and/or back-office applications a plus
• • Experience writing unit tests in an MVC environment a plus
• • Experience working in an AWS environment a plus
• • Hands-on experience with highly secured enterprise-level applications a plus
• • Experience writing multi-threaded applications in Nodejs is a plus