Backend Engineer (Express, NestJS, Nx, Typescript)

Valor Software is a software development and consulting company specializing in advancing and bringing together open-source technologies to achieve technological and business advancement for their customers.

Customer product helps people to travel more easily by letting them know about the needed travel documentation and providing them with up-to-date travel requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to our backend infrastructure. You will take co-ownership of our backend infrastructure, which hosts our authentication flow, payment systems, AI logic, feature management and data processing

• Design and build. You will have a key voice in how we architect and integrate our solutions

• Improve performance and care about quality. We dogfood our own solutions. You focus on shipping software that matters to your users and that matter to the company youʼre building for

• Wear many hats. In a small startup, weʼre all generalists. You might work with our finance team on partner commission dashboards and create custom reports from BigQuery or set up an internal API endpoint and dive into setting up a load balancer in GCP using Terraform

  Our Techstack:

  TypeScript

  NodeJS

  Express

  NestJS

  NoSQL (Firestore)

  SQL (PostgreSQL)

  Nx

  GitHub

  Datadog

  Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, PubSub, BigQuery, Scheduler, Cloud Endpoints, Firestore)

We offer:

• Remote work model

• Flexible working hours

• 45 working days per year for personal time out

• Mentorship and knowledge-sharing

• Performance review with a possible compensation raise

• 5 years of professional experience in full-time software development roles

• Experience building and maintaining design systems

• Strong understanding of how the web works

• Thrive in a free-floating collaborative environment with other teams to identify high-impact ways of solving problems quickly

• Excellent oral and written communication

• Working hours in the Toronto timezone