Senior Backend Engineer with GraphQL

Senior Backend Engineer with GraphQL focus required to join our Engineering team to work with one of our leading retail clients!

We are VML Enterprise Solutions - a group of talented engineers, tech experts, and creators who combine our passions and contribute to the IT world. You may know us better as Wunderman Thompson Technology – in 2024 we changed our name, but at the same time, we remained a great team of people who deliver our best. We design, build, manage and run complex technology platforms and help our clients to benefit from our work and creativity.  

What you’ll get to do:

• Creating high quality production-ready GraphQL code within Apollo GraphQL Framework.
• Drive forward the quality – in code, unit testing, accessibility, performance, code reviews
• Deliver on an Agile workstream, contributing to all standards ceremonies
• Ability to converse confidently with technical and non-technical colleagues
• Build modular layouts, reusable code and libraries for future use
• Collaborating with technical and non-technical colleagues to escalate issues and highlight any areas that need wider team action
• Cooperate with design and marketing teams to gather and refine specifications and requirements for development
• Be involved in existing and new integrations for the platform
• Full end-to-end ownership from idea to delivery, covering ongoing maintenance, expansion and scaling
• Stay current with evolving standards and technologies, learning new skills as needed
• Support of the recruitment process in technical tests and team fit assessments

What we want from you:

• Mastery of GraphQL, Typescript and JavaScript (ES6+) adhering to industry defined coding standards
• Solid understanding of the Agile methodology i.e. Story point estimation, refinement, sprint planning, retrospective, sprint demos
• Working experience of Apollo / Federated GraphQL
• Working experience of Stellate GraphQL
• A desire to write readable, maintainable, modular, and extendable code
• Have extensive testing and debugging abilities using the browser console and other tools
• Knowledge of current trends and best practices in GraphQL
• Commercial experience of using GIT in a large development team performing Continuous Integration
• Excellent communication skills and capability to interact directly with the team and stakeholders
• Commercial experience of unit testing/End to end testing/regression testing
• Willingness to contribute to both large, complex projects and smaller tasks as directed.
• Great attitude, self-motivated, strong work ethic, with strong ownership
• Have experience of integrating with a variety of external, 3rd party systems

If you know some of this, even better:

• Experience of eCommerce feeds and integrations
• Experience in building rapid prototypes
• Experience with a Type Checking language either Flow or TypeScript (we use TypeScript)
• Experience of mentoring junior members of the team

What we offer:

• Salary depending on presented skills: 12 000 - 16 800 PLN /month (B2B contract)
• Fully remote job as well as possibility to visit our offices in Poznań, Katowice and Bydgoszcz
• Work equipment with delivery to your door
• Opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world 

Please note that this job is a full-time position located in Poland, but the selection process will be conducted in English. 

Please send over your CV in English. 

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