Lead Software Engineer

Role & responsibilities

Description

The Software Engineering team is a group of Fullstack developers who design, develop, and maintain our products, tools, and infrastructure.

Your day-to-day job will consist of:

• Work as part of an Agile SCRUM team in the planning, scoping, estimation and execution of technical solutions
• Develop scalable web applications and services
• Investigate and resolve issues reported for a large web application following best practices such as authoring or updating unit tests, writing maintainable code, applying established patterns and algorithms
• Analyze performance and develop improvements to the performance of the web application
• Perform upgrades to 3rd party libraries and tools used by the web application
• Implement new web application software features and products following best practices such as authoring of unit tests, writing maintainable code, applying established patterns and algorithms
• Specialize in client or server-side web application development as a member of a project team
• Familiarity with the full technical stack
• Develop software to support internal initiatives, tools, update framework and application functionality
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred candidate profile

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 8+ years of relevant and related work experience.
• At least 3+ years in a leadership or senior engineering role.
• Experience designing scalable and secure systems.
• Knowledge of performance optimization and system reliability
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js (Express.js/NestJS).
• Solid experience in React.js, including Hooks and state management.
• Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+) / TypeScript
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs / microservices
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/DynamoDB).
• Experience designing data persistence and caching concepts using both SQL and NoSQL DBMS (MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.)
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks.
• Experience in mentoring and guiding developers
• Strong understanding of clean code, design patterns, and version control (Git)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with serverless architecture
• Familiarity with Redux / advanced state management