Lead - Software Development Engineering (Node.JS)

Role & responsibilities

Lead, mentor & manage backend engineers

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

Preferred candidate profile

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 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)

Experience working on cloud technologies (AWS)

Experience with Kubernetes

Experience with GraphQL

Experience with relational databases and knowledge of SQL.

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.