Lead Node.js Developer - Backend Technologies

<p><p><b>Job Responsibilities :</b><br/><br/>- Lead, manage & inspire a team of backend software engineers, providing technical guidance, mentorship and performance management<br/><br/>- Owning end-to-end responsibility of software development life cycle, ensuring projects are delivered on schedule, within budget and with high quality<br/><br/>- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, develop, and ship new features, develop technical strategies and product development plan<br/><br/>- Evaluate requirements and create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured development strategies<br/><br/>- Writing clean, efficient & maintained code<br/><br/>- Conduct regular code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards, scalability, maintainability and performance optimization<br/><br/>- Identify and resolve technical challenges, proactively mitigating risks and providing innovative solutions<br/><br/>- Monitor and optimize team performance, productivity and resource utilization to meet project deadlines and deliverables<br/><br/>- Develop and implement strategic plans to foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, continuous learning & improvements.<br/><br/>- Build high performing teams by attracting, mentoring and retaining top engineering talent<br/><br/>- Setting KPIs and other metrics to measure team performance<br/><br/>- Team management & motivation<br/><br/>- Mentoring & Coaching<br/><br/>- Stay informed about emerging technologies, industry trends and best practices in software engineering<br/><br/><b>Required Skills :</b><br/><br/>- Proven 10+ years of experience working as backend engineer<br/><br/>- Prior experience in designing and developing highly scalable, high performance and fault tolerant mobile application products with infrastructure hosted on AWS<br/><br/>- Experience leading engineering teams and understand how to hire and retain the best engineering talent<br/><br/>- Excellent understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms<br/><br/>- Excellent understanding of System Design & Micro-service Architecture<br/><br/>- Proficiency in developing secure, scalable & highly optimized RESTful-based web services / APIs using Node JS<br/><br/>- Building scalable and performance-oriented services with caching techniques<br/><br/>- Experience with MongoDB (Mongo Atlas) and analysing the efficiency of queries<br/><br/>- Experience working on Elasticsearch/Solr<br/><br/>- Experience Integrating payment gateways<br/><br/>- integrating with logging and monitoring systems<br/><br/>- Experience working on cloud technologies (AWS), Docker/Kubernetes, BullMQ/Kafka/RabbitMQ<br/><br/>- Experience with DevOps and delivering into cloud-based environments using standard CI/CD tools (Jenkins, SonarQube, Spinnaker) and best practices<br/><br/>- Solid debugging skills with the ability to identify performance bottlenecks and drive optimization efforts<br/><br/>- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivery high-quality results<br/><br/>- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills<br/><br/>- Outstanding customer-centric & growth mindset and a hunger for impact<br/><br/><b>Desired Skills :</b><br/><br/>- Solid understanding of iOS/Android App Development.<br/><br/>- Experience with relational databases and knowledge of SQL</p><br/></p> (ref:hirist.tech)