Software Mind

Lead Software Engineer

Software Mind

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇷 Costa Rica

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

GraphQLJavaScriptNext.jsNode.jsReactSDLCSQLTypeScript

About the role

  • Write great code and be a team player who is willing to share your expertise and knowledge with others.
  • Iterating and updating client-facing web pages and flows that guide users toward the right company-related products to meet their needs.
  • Perform data integrations within the decision process to improve customer experience.
  • Contribute to the design and development of new applications, features, and flows to make the customer experience more intuitive and user-friendly.
  • Support ongoing efforts to optimize the client's end-to-end SDLC, while maintaining best practices.
  • Work throughout the full tech stack using React.js, TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, SQL, REST API, Context API, and more.
  • Support the adoption and migration of Next.js, to increase speed and responsiveness
  • Own and drive various projects and support senior engineers driving other projects
  • Help “up-level” the team through mentorship, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and pair programming as needed on complex development tasks.
  • Provide thought leadership/expertise around the right level of engineering for a given solution to help ensure projects are not “over-engineered”.
  • Attend and contribute to architecture and design meetings and discussions.
  • Partner with the Engineering Manager to:
  • - Plan the roadmap & quarterly OKRS
  • - Breakdown product requirements into actionable user stories
  • - Bring a technical voice to planning & refinement meetings
  • - Maintain a high bar for engineering excellence
  • - Suggest process improvements and ideas to make the team better

Requirements

  • +90% English written and oral (at least B2 level) with excellent communication skills
  • 8-10 years of overall development experience in a professional software engineer position
  • 1-2 years of experience in a Tech Lead, Team Lead, or Staff Engineer role
  • Expertise in React, advanced TypeScript, Next.js (preferably Next.js version 13), and Node.js
  • Ability to mentor other engineers in TypeScript and share knowledge/best practices
  • Experience with Observability:
  • Strong knowledge of observability tools like DataDog or similar
  • Experience setting up dashboards, monitors, error reporting, etc.
  • Experience with Web Performance
  • Core web vitals, caching, Critical rendering path, static generation
  • Experience working on large-scale production applications
  • Ability to take business requests and break them down into manageable steps to achieve a goal
Benefits
  • Flexible schedules and authentic work-life balance
  • Opportunities for continuing education
  • Social activities per country sponsored by the company
  • Birthday celebration
  • Payment in US Dollars

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
React.jsTypeScriptNext.jsNode.jsGraphQLSQLREST APIContext APIWeb PerformanceObservability
Soft skills
communication skillsmentorshipteam playerthought leadershipknowledge sharingcode reviewspair programmingproject ownershipprocess improvementtechnical planning