Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain production-grade RESTful APIs using Node.js and TypeScript.
- Integrate APIs with external services and third-party systems.
- Implement and manage the API lifecycle through Azure API Management.
- Develop and maintain frontend components aligned with backend APIs.
- Write and optimize complex PostgreSQL queries and stored procedures.
- Build automated unit, integration, and system tests.
- Review pull requests and identify potential defects early.
- Work with Git-based development processes and CI/CD pipelines.
- Build, run, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Docker.
- Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders across globally distributed teams.
- Contribute to knowledge transfer through shadowing, supervised operations, runbooks, and dry-run exercises.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience as a full-stack or API software developer.
- Hands-on experience developing production-grade APIs with Node.js and TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, JSON, YAML, and Swagger/OpenAPI specifications.
- Practical experience with API design, maintainability, testability, and error handling.
- Good knowledge of PostgreSQL and SQL, including complex queries and stored procedures.
- Experience developing and maintaining frontend components using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Experience with automated unit, integration, and system testing.
- Familiarity with Git, pull-request workflows, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of container-based application development using Docker.
- Clear communication skills and ability to work with technical and business stakeholders.
- Fluency in spoken and written English and ability to collaborate with globally distributed teams.
- Preferred experience with Vue.js or another modern JavaScript frontend framework, Backstage, Azure API Management, Mocha, Bruno, Postman, automated quality gates, or regulated enterprise environments.
Benefits
- Base salary range of EUR 2,800 to EUR 4,600 per month for a full-time role in Slovakia.
- Performance-based variable compensation and global and location-specific benefits.
- Flexible and inclusive work environment with opportunities for professional development.
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About Swiss Re
The Swiss Re Group is a leading wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer. Dealing direct and working through brokers, its global client base consists of insurance companies, mid-to-large-sized corporations and public sector clients. From standard products to tailor-made coverage across all lines of business, Swiss Re deploys its capital strength, expertise and innovation power to enable the risk taking upon which enterprise and progress in society depend. Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1863, Swiss Re serves clients through a network of over 70 offices globally and is rated "AA-" by Standard & Poor's, "Aa3" by Moody's and "A+" by A.M. Best. Registered shares in the Swiss Re Group holding company, Swiss Re Ltd, are listed in accordance with the Main Standard on the SIX Swiss Exchange and trade under the symbol SREN. We're smarter together. For more information about Swiss Re Group, please visit: www.swissre.com, follow us on X @SwissRe and subscribe our YouTube channel @swissretv.