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Backend Development Lead - Node.js/Microservices Architecture

Helius
Multiple Locations
5 - 13 Years

Posted on: 03/11/2025

Job Description

Description :

Key Responsibilities :


- Coach and empower a high-performing software engineering team using a product centric approach.

- Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps and actionable software engineering initiatives.

- Design and architect reliable, cloud-native solutions using modern microservices and serverless architectures.

- Drive technical strategy and architectural decision-making, balancing technical debt, operational reliability, and product velocity.

- Grow engineering expertise in areas such as automated test coverage, code reviews, pair programming, secure development practices, branching strategies, and observability.

- Instill high build quality for operational resiliency and devise metrics that link technical performance to business outcomes.

- Stay abreast of emerging trends and continuously improve development standards and tech stack to remain relevant.

- Foster a culture of focus, concise documentation, innovation sharing, and cross functional collaboration.

Skills & Qualifications :

Technical Expertise :

- Advanced coding skills across multiple languages and frameworks :

1. Backend : Node.js (Express.js), GraphQL, MySQL, and NoSQL databases.

2. Frontend : PHP, Svelte, Angular.

- Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, and other scalable datastores.

- Strong hands-on experience with Azure and DigitalOcean cloud platforms, including :

1. Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes.

2. Serverless computing (e.g., Azure Functions).

3. Event-driven architecture using Kafka, message queues, or similar technologies.

- Experience using Prometheus, and other tools for centralized logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.

- Proficiency with CI/CD tools such as Gitlab.

- Familiarity with security tools like SonarQube and Owasp Concepts.

Leadership and Strategic Capabilities :


- 5+ years of software engineering leadership experience, follow Engineering excellence and discipline, with a proven ability to hire, retain, and guide high-performing, autonomous engineering teams in cloud-native, product-driven environments.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills, able to articulate complex technical strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and secure alignment.

- Experience applying Scrum or other Agile methodologies to iteratively deliver value.

- Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for actioncomfortable navigating fast-paced environments while balancing compliance in a larger organizational context.

- Track record of success driving digital transformation and modernization initiatives.

- Passion for mentorship, technical excellence, and building inclusive engineering cultures.

- Ongoing commitment to learning and staying current with evolving technologies and industry practices.

Education :


- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent hands-on experience in software engineering roles.

Skills Years of exp & Last used :

- Nodejs

- Expressjs

- Graphql

- Mysql

- No sql

- Digital Ocean

- Docker

- Agile


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Functional Area

Backend Development

Job Code

1568971