Senior Developer

• Company Experian Asia Pacific
• No. of Openings 10+
• Salary Not Disclosed
• Work Type on-site

Job Description :

This developer will be working to expand our capabilities around high performance backend batch, real-time and streaming APIs and data pipelines. We leverage a lot of cloud and we have a preference for AWS, so it is expected that the developer should know how to get around with fully serverless development and has knowledge of AWS service offerings for application development, e.g. EKS, Elastic BeanStalk, Lambda, EventBridge, DynamoDB, SQS, SQS, S3, Neptune, etc.

We have data in the heart of everything we do, so this developer will be helping on further expanding our Mosaic Portal backend and pipelines, which is the main place where clients access and interact with our most important Data Product: Mosaic.

Responsible for

• Designing, developing and maintaining applications software in JavaScript (express, node).
• A strong focus is placed on dev work, with only approximately one third of the employee’s time spent in design.

Reports to

• Project Manager, Divisional Manager – Service Line, Applications Development Team Leader.

Supervises

• May mentor Developers.

Main activities

• Designing, coding, testing and installing applications programs either in one major language or in a range of programs across multiple platforms. Developing operating and system documentation.
• Working with users to evaluate IT applications and equipment requirements. Ensuring that systems are developed within agreed budgets and time frames and achieving necessary design and systems security standards.
• Providing technical mentoring and guidance to less experienced members of applications development team.

Internal contacts

• Users and user groups, development team members. External contacts Vendors of hardware and software.

Key Skills

Qualifications

• Javascript (Vue, React) - Mandatory
• Advanced skills in one or more of the major programming languages like JavaScript, Python, Scala. Advanced skills and knowledge of SQL.
• May include advanced Java/J2EE or .NET architecture skills and the ability to transfer these to specific project deliverables, including web models.
• Knowledge in open source programming. Ability to understand the essential needs of users and meet these in well-designed programs. Good skills in time and resource management.
• Familiarity with AWS e.g. EKS, Lambda
• Experience with Snowflake and/or Spark is a bonus
• Others:
• ExpressJS
• NPM
• DevOps - Jenkins, Terraform

Typical Experience

• 7+ years in software development, with at least 3 years general IT experience coupled with tertiary qualifications in computer science or a related discipline.