Engineering Lead (Cloud focused)

The position of Lead Cloud Engineer would join the Cloud team in the RD department to accelerate our exciting product roadmap of Cloud-connected systems and digital services which form the core of our development projects. This roadmap includes migrating to a microservices architecture as well as adding new features and functionality.

Responsibilities:

Design and implement new features for the Cloud services, building on existing functionality to deliver greater value to our customers.

Lead the implementation of architectural improvements to ensure performance, scalability, and maintainability.

Develop RESTful APIs using NodeJS and related frameworks (e.g., Express).

Investigate and resolve system defects and performance bottlenecks.

Assist and mentor cloud team members, providing technical guidance and code reviews.

Understand and translate business vision into actionable technical roadmaps, identifying opportunities for optimization, cost savings, and feature enhancements.

Provide technical leadership and support to the broader development team.

Work in a Scrum-based Agile environment, delivering high-quality outputs in regular sprint cycles.

Support CI/CD deployments into development and production environments.

Skills Experience you will bring to Team:

Proven 8+ Years of hands-on experience in developing and maintaining scalable, cloud-based applications using NodeJS and modern backend frameworks.

Strong experience with functional and object-oriented JavaScript, including ES6 features

Strong proficiency with SQL, with the ability to write and optimize large, complex SQL queries

Excellent analytical and debugging skills

Experience in reviewing application requirements and interface designs, including wireframing.

Ability to identify web-based user interactions and define smooth user experience flows

Proven experience in developing and implementing responsive UI components using frameworks such as React or Vue.

Working knowledge and experience with Scrum and Agile methodologies.

A track record of mentoring junior developers and fostering a collaborative culture.

Advantage to Have:

Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or CDK/CDKTF.

An understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable applications, especially Event Driven Architecture and microservices.

Hands-on experience in deploying and monitoring applications in AWS or other cloud infrastructure environments.

A good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Pug, EJS, or similar.