Experience: 5-7+ years’ experience with Javascript
As the technical lead, you will communicate and align your team on plans, deliverables, and solutions with internal stakeholders as well as with large-scale high-profile customers themselves, confirming requirements and expectations. You understand customer needs and can easily translate that to technical descriptions.
Responsibilities:
- Help design high-quality, high-performance, scalable web solutions
- Contribute to and lead technical discussions, identify and suggest ideas and solutions to problems at hand
- Communicate and discuss directly with internal stakeholders and customers
- Provide technical leadership for your team, and assist in improving your colleagues’ skills through technical mentoring, coaching, and knowledge-sharing
- Participate in design and code reviews to foster technical innovation in the areas of component reuse, extensibility, maintainability and scalability
- Monitor your applications in production, and proactively identify and fix issues clients are encountering
- Help build a strong SRE and DevOps culture.
- Understand the deployment pipelines and release process
- Have a strong quality mindset, driving the team to own the quality of the applications
- Contributing to the product-wide technical roadmap, ensuring the success of technical cross-team initiatives and responsible adoption of new technologies and industry trends
Qualifications:
- 5-7+ years experience with Javascript
- 3+ years of experience leading technical teams
- Strong architectural knowledge of standard system design patterns and anti-patterns
- Comfortable working on MacOS and constant use of command line terminals
- Experience in building and deploying microservices and monolithic applications
- Experience with Jenkins, docker, and AWS lambda
- Strong experience with Postgres and MongoDB
- Experience working with REST API
- Experience with multithreading
- Experience writing unit testing
- Strong focus on performance and resiliency of the application
- Strong English communication skills, verbal and written
- Assets: Experience with Java/Scala
Personality Characteristics:
- You are autonomous and proactive, taking initiative when you see opportunities
- You have a disciplined and focused approach to solving problems
- You bring a culture of respect to others based on integrity, collaboration, and partnership with your peers in the company
- You value being in a team-oriented culture
- You pride yourself in coming up with creative solutions
- You are goal-oriented, a quick learner, a self-starter, organized, motivated, and a problem solver