Senior Full-Stack Engineer - ID Scanning

<p>Scandit is a high-growth tech scaleup from Switzerland with offices in Zurich, Boston, Warsaw, London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Tampere. Our market-leading smart data capture technology enables businesses to use any standard mobile phone to extract data from barcodes, ID documents, text, and objects. </p> <p>The ID scanning team at Scandit builds solutions to verify identity documents quickly, accurately and securely. Our goal is to shift customers from tedious manual checks to automated ones which are faster and more reliable. As we deal with identity data, security and data protection are crucial in our work. </p> <h3>About the Role </h3> <p>We are looking for an engineer with experience in both front and backend development to help us grow our product portfolio. As a Full-Stack Engineer in the ID scanning team you will be helping us to deliver new features for the web version of our SDK, as well as a completely new, business-to-customer oriented web ID verification product. Additionally, you will be building innovative, experimental products and features in collaboration with mobile and ML engineers, the product team and the designers. </p> <h3>What You Will Do</h3> <ul> <li>Add new features and maintain our TypeScript/JavaScript library;</li> <li>Develop and maintain new web products and server-side backends;</li> <li>Build the web app demos, allowing us to showcase our products to customers;</li> <li>Ensure our web infrastructure is always fast and scales well via code / server / cloud optimizations and monitoring;</li> <li>Transform initial designs into full-fledged products;</li> <li>Ensure quality by delivering unit and E2E testing;</li> <li>Browser debugging and optimization.</li> </ul> <h3>Our Tech Stack</h3> <ul> <li>SvelteKit</li> <li>NodeJS</li> <li>WebSocket</li> <li>TypeScript</li> <li>Tailwind CSS</li> <li>WebAssembly / Emscripten</li> <li>C++</li> <li>Jest</li> <li>Playwright</li> <li>Python</li> <li>Kubernetes</li> <li>GitLab</li> </ul> <h3>Who You Are</h3> <p>You have experience in both front- and backend development, and you keep up-to-date with the latest technologies, tools, and best practices in your field. In your past career you have worked on large projects and deployed them to production successfully.</p> <p>You constantly think about customer needs and you design APIs and solutions that provide the best experience for them. </p> <p>You’re also someone who has a strong team spirit, is keen to collaborate on different projects, and share knowledge with your peers to ensure we’re always working with the best technologies and tools.</p> <p>Ideally:</p> <ul> <li>You have 4+ years of experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, and Web development;</li> <li>You have a very good knowledge of HTTP/HTTPs;</li> <li>You have experience with web frameworks like React, Svelte, Vue or Angular; </li> <li>You have experience with backend development;</li> <li>You know common UNIX commands;</li> <li>You have good knowledge of SQL;</li> <li>You have experience with testing automation libraries like Playwright;</li> <li>WebAssembly, C++ or Python knowledge is a plus;</li> <li>Experience with cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure is a plus;</li> <li>You are flexible and willing to learn new technologies;</li> <li>You are able to work independently and take ownership of your projects;</li> <li>You are thorough and pay attention to details;</li> </ul> <h3>What We Offer</h3> <p>Here are just some of the reasons why people choose to build their career at Scandit: </p> <ul> <li>A highly skilled team and a fun environment where you can put your enthusiasm for cutting-edge technologies to use</li> <li>Excellent office infrastructure, optimized for hybrid working in Zurich, Warsaw, Tampere, and London.</li> <li>Excellent support for remote work across the UK, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany</li> <li>Innovation hackathons </li> <li>People-first culture</li> <li>Global team outings </li> <li>Festive/end of year all company celebrations </li> <li>Extra vacation day off on your birthday</li> <li>An attractive individual equity plan in a high growth company </li> <li>Do good and give back with two impact days where you are able to give time to one of our trusted nonprofit partners</li> <li>Specific benefits related to the location you are joining</li> </ul> <h3>Who We Are</h3> <p>Could your code give superpowers? Whether enabling delivery drivers to make quicker deliveries, matching a patient with their medication or allowing retailers to make store operations more efficient, our technology automates workflows and provides actionable insights to help businesses in a variety of industries. This means we have no shortage of technical challenges for engineers like you. Join us, as we continue to expand, grow and innovate, and help take Scandit to the next level.</p> <p><em>“Everybody is welcome here” - Is a celebrated component of our DNA.</em></p> <p><em>At Scand