Tech Stack
AWSCloudDockerJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsPostgresReactSQLTypeScript
About the role
- Oversee all projects undertaken by the team, determining technical requirements and communicating them to the team
- Identify risks and come up with contingency plans
- Collaborate closely with design and product teams to create extraordinary product experiences
- Work closely with the Team Lead and Product Manager to ensure that the team’s work is aligned with product goals and delivery timelines
- Demonstrate excellence in product-led software development
- Develop software architecture required to implement the team’s features, meet their objectives and key results (OKRs)
- Provide software development expertise to team members via pair programming and code review
Requirements
- Expertise in Backend Development: Strong proficiency in Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript best practices, along with experience in at least one other server-side language.
- Database Mastery: You're a SQL guru, particularly with PostgreSQL, handling query optimization, data migrations, and database modeling.
- Solid Grasp of OOP and Design Patterns: Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns, with experience in building and extending classes.
- Scalability Focus: Experience in designing systems for scalability, ensuring they manage rapid growth and increasing demands efficiently.
- High-Volume Performance: Proven expertise in optimizing systems for large transaction volumes, handling concurrency, idempotency, and performance under load.
- API Development: Skilled in building APIs, including input validation, JWT tokens, and ensuring security & scalability through queue-based systems.
- AWS or similar cloud experience
- Kubernetes, Helm and Docker knowledge
- Strong system design and problem solving skills, we often deal with the “unknown”
- Strong communication skills
- You are hands-on troubleshooter
- You are ready for challenges
- You have expert knowledge of TypeScript and React.js - particularly Class Components, Functional Components and React Hooks
- You have great knowledge of state management tools
- You’re an expert with the essentials, such as HTML and CSS