Node.js Lead - Microservices Architecture

We are looking to hire seasoned Node.js professionals at the lead level who thrive on challenges and desire to make a real difference in the business world.

You will review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environments, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors.

Job Responsibilities :

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.

- Support site rollouts and be available to resolve site issues.

- Develop industry and product technical expertise.

- Work closely with the customer to understand requirements, conduct feasibility studies, consult clients with the best solutions, plan projects, and successfully deliver projects with the highest quality of code.

- Manage, mentor, and assist team members in technically challenging tasks.

- Conduct code reviews of team members and encourage peer reviews as per industry standards and appropriate architecture, object relations, and design patterns.

- Liaise with design, front-end, and QA teams for seamless communication and coordination to build state-of-the-art applications.

Technical Skills :

- Good knowledge of Node.js with a minimum of 6 years of experience.

- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.

- Hands-on experience with TypeScript and frameworks like Nest.js.

- Experience with database technologies (e.g, MongoDB, PostgreSQL) and RESTful APIs.

- Proficient in NoSQL document databases, especially MongoDB, and Redis.

- Understanding the whole web stack and how all the pieces fit together (front-end, database, network layer, etc.) and how they impact the performance of your application.

- Good understanding of server-side templating languages and server-side CSS pre-processors such as Stylus and Less.

- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.

- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket.

- Hands-on experience with continuous deployment tools like Jenkins and Strider, and debugging tools like Chrome/Firefox DevTools.

- Basic understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML5, Bootstrap, and CSS3.

- Experience working with microservices.

- Experience with message queues like RabbitMQ or Kafka.

- Thorough understanding of API Security, Authentication, Authorization, OAuth, and SSO implementation.

- Experience with performance analysis.

- Deep understanding of various design patterns and hands-on experience with their applicability.

Soft Skills :

- Must have good communication skills