Remote Lead Fullstack Developer

Summary

Join our team as a Software Engineer III to develop and implement secure software solutions, interact with stakeholders, provide technical leadership, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software industry experience with expertise in Javascript & Node.js
• Strong experience building single-page web apps using modern frameworks, e.g. React, Ember.js, AngularJS, etc
• Solid understanding of core JavaScript concepts like scope/closures, the event loop and asynchronous callbacks, promises
• Strong experience with MySQL, ElasticSearch and Redis
• Ownership of the entire software development lifecycle, starting from requirement gathering, scoping, and planning to release and production monitoring and maintenance
• History of demonstrated desire to learn, document, and share knowledge with others
• Expertise in large-scale cloud-based distributed systems
• Expertise in designing and implementing external-facing REST APIs that are standardized, intuitive, easy-to-use, consistent, and secure
• Experience in messaging systems, asynchronous processing, event-driven architecture, monolith architecture, SOA, and microservices
• Experience with Test-Driven Development; observability instrumentation
• Experience leading technical teams on mission-critical projects
• Expert knowledge in Scrum process and ceremonies

Responsibilities

• Interact with Product Managers to define, influence and gather requirements
• Interact with various stakeholders to define robust architectural solutions, with special attention to observability, availability, scalability and API design
• Provide technical leadership on mission critical projects
• Propose and drive engineering initiatives to reduce technical debt and ensure solid technical foundation
• Guide and mentor junior engineers on design and implementation, provide meaningful feedback on PR code reviews; be a strong advocate for engineering best practices
• Actively write code on important projects
• Help drive releases, on-call rotation, production incident response and post-mortems
• Participate in quarterly and annual roadmap planning
• Help hire and mentor engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services
• Prior experience within payments and risk domains
• Experience with domain decomposition and breaking monolith into (micro)services