Lead Node Developer

• Provide technical leadership and mentor a team of engineers to build Internet-scale applications where performance, reliability, and scalability, are critical design goals not after-thoughts
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to create solutions for our customers
• Create intuitive, interactive, and easy-to-use web applications using rich client-side and REST based server-side code using Node, React and Typescript/Javascript
• Implement the nuts and bolts of Microservices Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) in real-life applications
• Use database technologies, ranging from traditional relational to the latest NoSQL products such as AWS DynamoDB and Couchbase
• Work with some of the best engineers in the industry to work on complex Software as a Service (SaaS) based applications

What You Will Need for this Position:

You need to have a strong passion for software development and must take pride in designing and coding. You should also have great analytical skills and ability to handle complex, modular software development in a collaborative team-based environment.

In addition to this, you will have a leg up if you also meet the following criteria:

Educational Qualifications / Background:

• Bachelors degree (or higher) in Computer Science OR related technical discipline
• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with strong interpersonal skills

Primary Skills:

• 7 to 9 years of Software Development experience in developing and shipping software
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile environment and result oriented culture
• Hands-on programming experience with Node, JavaScript and TypeScript
• Experience with RESTful Web Services and API development
• Experience in contributing to the architecture and design (Design Patterns, Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) including Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Security)
• Experience with one or more of the databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Couchbase, Cassandra, AWS DynamoDB or other NoSQL technologies
• Experience of working with Queuing technologies such as SQS/RabbitMQ/Kafka/Active MQ
• Strong influence in technical discussions and building teams technical vision
• Experience in leading an engineering team

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in full stack development ranging from front-end user interfaces to backend systems
• Experience/knowledge of React, Vue or Angular; Graph Query Language (GQL)
• Experience of working with Elasticsearch/Solr
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms like AWS/GCP/Azure Cloud
• Experience using feature flags and trunk-based development