Senior TypeScript Developer, Samsung Food

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• 5+ years of experience with TypeScript and Node.js
• Solid understanding of functional programming principles and design patterns (immutability, composition, pure functions, higher-order functions)
• Experience with relational databases and NoSQL databases
• Experience building and deploying RESTful and gRPC APIs
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows
• Solid understanding of testing methodologies and experience writing unit and integration tests
• Experience with cloud platforms, specifically GCP
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Desirable

• We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior TypeScript Developer to join our growing engineering team. You’ll be a key contributor to the design, development, and maintenance of our innovative backend services and APIs, playing a vital role in powering Samsung’s growing platforms
• This role involves full lifecycle ownership, from solution design and implementation to testing, deployment, and monitoring, requiring close collaboration with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders. Your expertise will directly impact the scalability, reliability, and performance of our systems
• Our backend platform is built on a decade of Scala/ZIO experience. Now we're expanding to TypeScript/Effect, and you'll have significant influence in shaping this stack
• Our Tech Stack
• Languages: TypeScript
• Runtime: Node.js / Bun (evaluating), Effect
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch
• Messaging: Kafka
• Infrastructure: GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
• Tools: Git, CI/CD Pipelines, Vitest, Biome, OpenTelemetry
• Design and develop robust, scalable, and well-documented backend services and APIs using TypeScript and Effect
• Lead technical design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions
• Help shaping our TS/Effect toolkit by contributing to an internal util library and steering documents
• Write clean, testable, and efficient code adhering to best practices and coding standards
• Collaborate closely with frontend or mobile native engineers, product managers, and QA to deliver high-quality features
• Participate in code reviews providing constructive feedback to peers
• Monitor and troubleshoot production issues, ensuring system stability and reliability, using logs, metrics, and tracing (OpenTelemetry)
• Mentor junior developers and share technical knowledge
• This is a full-time, contract-based role (40 hours per week) with a long-term commitment