Lead Back End Engineer ( Java- Nodejs )
Leading an agile software team, you will design, implement, and maintain the Client’s global content API application using modern backend technologies.
Provide technical vision, direction and prioritization for the team.
Continuously innovate and strategize on making our applications faster and more resilient.
Analyze complex problems, create reports and generate potential solutions for software, systems and processes.
Write high-quality code that supports existing and future requirements of the product
Discover, research, select, configure and deploy new technologies
Conduct Code Reviews by following Client’s Coding Standards
Work closely with product and engineering to deliver on product objectives.
Continually communicate with team members and stakeholders, including clarifying vision, changes in the marketplace, deliverables, timelines, etc.
Anticipate challenges and work with the team to develop solutions
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, or the equivalent, in a specific specialty such as Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
- At least 7+ years in a hands-on software role
- 4+ years as a backend engineer on distributed, high performance, fault-tolerant and high availability systems
- Strong background in architecting, developing, optimizing and maintaining REST, GraphQL APIs
- Extensive experience in ElasticSearch and Kibana
- Fluency in Java, python, Node.js and associated frameworks
- Expert knowledge of modern cloud services including managed services such as AWS EKS, OpenSearch, Lambdas, IAM, and RDS
- Experience using DevOps principles like TDD, CI/CD and build/test/release automation
- Direct experience with deploying production systems in cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP)
- Experience developing using Agile Methodologies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to analyze, decompose and estimate effort associated with various technical solutions
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and a proven ability to diagnose and prevent these problems