Purpose of the Role
As a well established engineering and technology leader you will direct a highly specialized team of seasoned IT professionals working on the design and development of new SaaS solutions around the JavaScript ecosystem. You will lead and expand the technology initiatives from technical and non-technical stakeholders, while leveraging critical thinking, business know-how and excellent communication.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Offer hands on technical mentorship to engineering teams participating in architecture design, code review, pair programming, and implementation of proven software design patterns
- Accelerate and optimize developer velocity by helping to implement best practices and owning results
- Engage with Product Management, QA, Data Analytics, DevOps teams to support the delivery efforts
- Ensure scalability and performance of the platform
- Participate in recruiting diverse top tier engineering talent
Required Experience & Knowledge
- 7+ years development experience delivering successful highly scalable technology solutions
- Experience managing cross functional/multidisciplinary distributed teams
- Strong mastery of modern web technologies and JavaScript frameworks, particularly React and Node
- Well versed in software engineering principles
- Deep experience working with AWS
- Database Experience – RDBMS like MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Experience using Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Experience with modern devstack (Docker, Kubernetes) as well as cloud hosting solutions
- Familiarity with Unix/Linux environments
Skills and Attributes
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Commitment to create value and quality client service experience
- Ability to work with the professionals in multicultural virtual work environment
Required Education & Qualifications
- Excellent English both written and spoken
- BS or MA in Computer Science, or relevant work experience