Technical Lead, Software Engineering - React/Node

We build breakthrough software products that power digital businesses. We are an innovative product development partner whose solutions drive rapid revenue, market share, and customer growth for industry leaders in Software and SaaS, Media and Publishing, Information Services, and Retail. Our key differentiator is our Product Mindset. Our development teams focus on building for outcomes and all of our team members around the globe are trained on the Product Mindset’s core values – Minimize Time to Value, Solve For Need, and Excel at Change. Our teams apply this mindset to build digital products that are customer-facing and revenue-generating. Our business-minded approach to agile development ensures that we align to client goals from the earliest conceptual stages through market launch and beyond.

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently guide the technical direction and implementation by the whole team within defined architecture in all stages from conceptualization to deployment.
• Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, and customer impact to ensure the development of the right solution, with client success at the forefront.
• Create and lead the team's technical documentation and repository management practices, including tasks such as creating branches, pull requests, merges, etc.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to provide necessary oversight of architecture and dependencies influencing product strategy and direction.
• Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and addressing complex bug fixes with a focus on security, performance, and reliability.
• Be an active leader in the Engineering Practice community, mentoring Senior Engineers and others through Communities of Practice (CoPs) or on project teams, supporting the growth of technical capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of 7+ years of experience/expertise working as a full-stack mobile engineer, with proficiency in the specified technologies.
• ReactProfessional experience in development using modern JavaScript stacks/frameworks/technologies (3- 5 years)
• Professional knowledge of JavaScript design patterns and best practices
• Development experience with several languages like: node.js, Java, Python, C#.
• Professional knowledge of state management libraries like Redux, vuex, MobX, ngrx (at least 2 closed projects, 1-2 years)
• Familiarity with at least one container technology (eg. Docker) and microservice architecture projectsHigh-Level knowledge of HTTP Protocol and standard data exchange protocols
• Hands-on experience in building responsive layouts
• Professional knowledge of automated testing (unit testing, end-to-end testing)In-depth understanding of JavaScript engines, CSS3 and CSS processors (Sass) and CSS in js
• Practice in building, packaging and deploying line-of-business applications and SAAS solutions (gulp, grunt, Webpack, Jenkins)
• Experience in performance optimization, detecting, removing and – most importantly – preventing bottlenecks, caching and lazy-loading
• Experience with both consuming and designing RESTful APIs.
• Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery using CircleCIGood understanding of good and clean code, SOLID.
• Experience in performance optimizationUX skillsTypescriptDemonstrated initiative in mentoring other engineers and decision-makers throughout the organization.
• Proficient in practicing and being responsible for code reviews.
• High level of English proficiency required to interact with a globally-based development team.
• Experience leading Agile software development methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience following and adapting high-level architecture to project and client needs.
• Ability to verify/validate architecture implementations and influence overall architecture beyond the team.
• Experience in effectively working collaboratively among relevant information stakeholders to create and implement well-tested, scalable, secure, and performant enterprise-level systems that ultimately deliver the client’s desired business outcome.
• Very good knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns..

Additional Experience Desired:

• Ability to set technical strategy and direct implementation across several teams/whole product.
• Ability to refine and clarify technical details (including definition of done) based on internal or external PO for User Stories and task assignments.
• Ability to provide technical orchestration among the overall tasks.
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of building Cloud Native applications.