As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be the Technical Lead to one of our top projects. An initiative that spans multiple phases requiring diverse technical skills—from hardcore backend development to frontend work, and hybrid tasks. You will work closely with our Product Owner and be responsible for both hands-on development and leading contracted or part-time resources.
Core Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end technical implementation of a new project from scratch, collaboration directly with the Head of Engineering on the implementation.
- Work closely with the Product Owner to refine, prioritize and execute the project roadmap aligned and driven by the company vision.
- Conduct hands-on coding using SQL, JavaScript, and API integrations in a backend/frontend environment as the project phase demands.
- Mentor and hands-on lead part-time contributors or contractors, ensuring the quality and consistency of their output.
- Develop and oversee API layers, database connectivity, and UI components, ensuring they meet both functional, performance and other defined requirements.
- Proactively identify technical bottlenecks, bugs, and risks; and devise actionable solutions.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of Full-stack development experience.
- Experience building back-end architectures with eye on resilience and performance. With proficiency in NodeJS, NestJS, REST, GraphQL and API building.
- Solid experience in ReactJS and modern JS frontend standards.
- Strong experience in PostgresQL, database modeling and optimization to guarantee the performance of the applications.
- Experience with event driven queuing services like AWS SNS, RabbitMQ, Kafka,or similar.
- Proven leadership experience leading software projects. Particularly in managing teams through varied project phases.
- Exceptional communication skills in articulating technical constraints and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar.
Nice to have:
- Experience building applications with Retool