Technical Lead-Backend

Responsibilities

• Extensive experience in backend development using Node.js and TypeScript (preference for NestJS)
• Lead design, planning, and estimation discussions within the team and with cross-functional partners and business
  

• Conduct high-level system analysis and architecture design, ensuring alignment with business requirements, technical
  

• Facilitate requirement gathering and translate complex business needs into clear technical specifications
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of project and technical documentation
• Identify and mitigate risks throughout the SDLC, proposing solutions to complex technical problems
• Apply advanced knowledge of system flows and define standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation
• Oversee production support processes in collaboration with operations and business stakeholders; analyze issue
  

• Guide documentation efforts, maintain on-call rotations, lead post-mortems, resolve root causes, and improve
  

• Provide technical leadership and act as a mentor/coach to mid-level developers, analysts, and graduates
• Bring hands-on experience across API integrations, databases, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies
• Lead from the front with a hands-on approach, mentoring engineers and helping scale team capabilities
• Demonstrate strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
  

Qualifications

• 7+ years of overall experience in backend development with Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, and PostgreSQL
• Strong experience building RESTful APIs and microservices
• Experience building and deploying solutions on Azure Cloud
• Strong understanding of unit testing principles and best practices
• Hands-on experience with testing frameworks such as Jest (and exposure to JUnit is a plus)
• Experience writing unit tests for Node.js applications; familiarity with Java codebases is an advantage
• Practical experience applying Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience managing and delivering successful projects end-to-end
• Ability to adjust priorities quickly in a fast-changing environment
• Demonstrated technical leadership and project ownership
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills
• Solid understanding of modern software architecture patterns
• Strong coaching mindset with a passion for knowledge sharing and team development
• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments and learning new technologies quickly
• Ability to make long-term architectural decisions aligned with business goals
• High personal and team quality standards with a strong sense of ownership
  

Education