Remote Engineering Lead

Summary

The job is for an Engineering Lead at Alloy Automation, a tech startup that provides integration infrastructure to various clients. The role involves leading a team of frontend, backend, and full stack engineers, building and debugging product features, collaborating with other teams, and providing mentorship.

Requirements

• Over 10 years of relevant software engineering experience, and building web applications at scale with Node, React, Typescript, JavaScript, AWS, MongoDB, containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong opinions and willingness to voice them
• Proven understanding of cloud infrastructure in a production environment
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions
• Strong interpersonal skills and clear communication abilities
• Proficient in back-end development concepts, including server-side architecture, design and architectural pattern and best practices in software development, APIs, databases, and authentication/authorization mechanisms
• Experience running production systems including deploying, monitoring, and debugging; optimizing code, enhancing performance, and improving system scalability and reliability
• Understand the importance of security in software development and knowledgeable about common security vulnerabilities and best practices to mitigate them

Responsibilities

• Build the best possible product that is performant, reliable, scalable and beautiful
• Lead a team of frontend, backend, and full stack engineers
• Partner closely with the Director of Software Engineering
• Solve complex problems and provide elegant solutions to customers and app users
• Collaborate closely with product, QA, and revenue organizations
• Learn new things and challenge yourself to architect and implement features for iPaaS and automation products, workflow orchestration and analytics engine
• Build, debug and manage queues, schedule jobs, map data across different APIs, handle errors, and help solve large scale infrastructure and engineering challenges for some of our most strategic accounts at scale
• Create infrastructure and internal tooling to handle extremely high transaction volume (millions of executions per minute)
• Teach and learn from those around you, providing constructive feedback and taking on feedback to help you grow
• Participate in regular code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge across all of Alloy
• Foster a deep rooted documentation culture across your team
• Provide mentoring and feedback to your team on a regular basis