Lead Software Developer - BackEnd

Tech Lead (Back End Development with node.js)

Where do you fit in

As a Lead, you take ownership of functionalities learn, and work collaboratively with your colleagues. You constantly design, test, evolve, and evaluate the nuts and bolts of our operation while offering a creative and analytical approach. The high-quality code that stems from your fingertips is robust, readable, and understandable. Your pragmatic test coverage allows you to confidently and responsibly practice continuous refactoring. As a backend specialist, you’re passionate about building scalable, resilient, and

secure systems. You’re at home writing platforms, and you display an intricate understanding of how each line of code fits into a business plan.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, build and evolve our backend systems to support customer-facing and internal features, while proactively incorporating best practices for security, testability,
• Observe logs and investigate root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues to deliver a compelling user experience.
• Contribute to tools, workflows, and culture to ship code from your laptop/workstation to production frequently and confidently.
• Practice Behavior Driven Development to collaborate and Test-Driven Development to ensure high code quality.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organizing team.
• Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.
  
  

You Must Have

• At least 5 years of professional software development experience.
• Well versed with languages such as JavaScript and TypeScript.
• 5+ years building scalable systems on Node.js.
• 5+ years building highly performant applications involving mission-critical database transactions against a relational database or non-relational database system.
• Proven ability to write clean and SOLID code using Javascript/Typescript applying appropriate object-oriented and functional programming design patterns.
• Well-versed with writing DAMP automated tests that are readable and robust.
• Excellent communication skills, spoken as well as written, with a demonstrated ability to articulate technical problems and projects to all stakeholders.
  
  

Extra credits for

• Experience with these technologies:
• Postgres (RDS) / Dynamo DB
• The AWS ecosystem.
• Rest APIs.
• Gherkin syntax and Cucumber for behavior specifications
• Tools to create and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Serverless infrastructure.
• Experience architecting cloud-native systems and managing their production deployments.
• Experience with any of these architecture patterns:
• Domain Driven Design.
• Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, Onion Architecture.
• Event Sourcing and CQRS.
• Different Event Driven Architecture patterns
• Ability to contribute in other parts of the stack - frontend, devops, test-automation etc