Lead Developer

Job Responsibilities :

• Owning end to end responsibility of API development, deployment and monitoring phases
• Evaluate requirements and create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured development strategies
• Writing efficient, clean and maintained code
• Ensure top-notch performance, quality, and responsiveness of app
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate development activities
• Effectively use tools and ingenuity to debug, identify and fix defects before they become a problem
• Collaborating closely with software engineers, product managers and QA teams to define, develop, and ship new features
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Perform code reviews
• Setting KPIs and other metrics to measure team performance
• Team management & motivation
• Mentoring & Coaching

Required

• Prior experience working on consumer-facing products.
• Proven 5+ years of API development experience in Node JS and Express JS/Restify/Koa,
• Building scalable, secure and performance oriented RESTful-based web services / APIs
• Experience with MongoDB and analyzing the efficiency of queries
• Working understanding of NGINX
• Experience working with ElasticSearch/Solr
• Experience working with BullMQ/RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Handle concurrent user requests, ensuring minimal latency and optimal response times.
• Solid understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms, distributed systems and design patterns.
• Experience Integrating payment gateways integrating with logging and monitoring systems
• Solid understanding of release management
• Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
• Must have used GIT (Source version control)
• Good understanding of Microservice Architecture
• Good understanding of system design & architecture
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivery high-quality results

Desired

• Experience working on cloud technologies (AWS)
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with relational databases and knowledge of SQL