Lead Developer - Node.Js

Experience: 8yrs to 12yrs

Work Type: Remote (Currently Work From Home)

Employment Type: Full Time

Responsibilities:

• Drive technical and architectural strategy for a product area.
• Architect, design, develop and deploy applications with a strong focus on availability, scalability, and robustness.
• Responsible for the quality of software deliverables using modern methodologies and tools.
• Take operational responsibility for the components owned by the team.
• Share knowledge, coach, and lead by example to build an extraordinary team.
• Collaborate with product owners and other stakeholders.
• Work on the forefront of building digital products for agriculture.
• Work within an international product team with a product manager, designers, and other developers to create solutions and apps focused on our customers' needs.
• Participate in the full life cycle of a product, from early-stage rapid prototyping through to full market release and continuous improvement after the initial launch.
• Develop back end components of scalable apps and solutions.
• Build scalable microservices running on a public cloud provider.
• Help, support and collaborate with other engineers in the team and other solutions.
• Work with Agronomists to improve our algorithms and services.

Desired Qualification:

• 3+ years of relevant experience in the leading position/managing software engineers.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in the software engineering area.
• Extensive experience with NodeJs (+Typescript) and NestJS framework ecosystem, particularly with microservices running on a public cloud provider.
• Experience with SQL-DB (e.g. PostgreSQL), and optionally NoSql Databases (e.g. Cassandra).
• Experience with AWS or any other public cloud providers, Docker and/or Kubernetes.
• Experience with the event-driven architecture and Kafka.
• Extensive practical knowledge of unit and integration tests.
• 3 years or more experience with modern, large scale software projects: source code control with Git, APls, cloud platforms, test-driven development, continuous integration, documentation
• Experience working in a cross-functional team.
• Full English proficiency (written and spoken skills).
• You are collaborative and thrive on self-improvement, Values and results-driven.
• Open to constructive feedback, both giving and receiving, in a clear and respectful manner
• Ready to make an impact, take ownership and you execute with conviction.
• Proactive and constructive even if things get ambiguous.