Lead Backend Software Developer

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, youre 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

1. Design, build and evolve our backend systems to support customer-facing and internal features, while proactively incorporating best practices for security, testability,

2. Observe logs and investigate root cause analysis.

3.  Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues to deliver a compelling user experience.

4. Contribute to tools, workflows, and culture to ship code from your laptop/workstation to production frequently and confidently.

5. Practice Behavior Driven Development to collaborate and Test-Driven Development to ensure high code quality.

6. Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organizing team.

7.  Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.

You Must Have

1. At least 5 years of professional software development experience.

2. Well versed with languages such as JavaScript and TypeScript.

3. 5+ years building scalable systems on Node.js.

4. 5+ years building highly performant applications involving mission-critical database transactions against a relational database or non-relational database system.

5. Proven ability to write clean and SOLID code using Javascript/Typescript applying appropriate object-oriented and functional programming design patterns.

6. Well-versed with writing DAMP automated tests that are readable and robust.

7. 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.

1. Experience architecting cloud-native systems and managing their production deployments.

2. 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

3. Ability to contribute in other parts of the stack - frontend, devops, test-automation etc