Business Development Executive

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Lead in the design and development of robust, scalable, and efficient software solutions, ensuring the highest standards in all aspects of software development.
• Design and implement high-quality, test-driven, scalable backend code for various client projects using TypeScript and Nest.js Develop and maintain APIs to support consuming teams.
• Work closely with frontend teams to optimize REST API integrations, ensuring efficient data fetching and caching strategies.
• Create and maintain documentation, implement and follow best practices for development workflow.
• Partner closely with Project Managers and other teams to ensure the successful delivery of significant software projects, coordinating resources and managing timelines for smooth project execution.
• Efficiently prioritizes and plans complex tasks, and influences a respectful, inclusive work environment, fostering continuous learning and growthContribute innovative ideas to ensure we deliver the best solutions for our clients.
• Act as a technical mentor to more junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Strong proficiency in English (written and verbal communication) is required.
• Experience working with remote teams in North America and Latin America, ensuring smooth collaboration across time zones.
• Deep expertise with Typescript and NestJs framework.
• Experience with authentication workflows and authorization mechanisms (OAuth, JWT)Experience with testing frameworks and best practices, including unit testing, integration testing, and e2e testing.
• Solid understanding of web technologies in general.
• Solid understanding of backend design patterns.
• Experience with designing applications that use and consume databases (SQL, ORM, etc).
• Extensive experience with building and maintaining versioned APIs Strong knowledge of GCP or other equivalent cloud platforms.
• Understanding of containerization technologies for development environments.
• Experience with messaging systems and patterns, ideally with tools like Google Pub/Sub or equivalentExperience with CI/CD pipelines for deployments (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Knowledge of security best practices, including CSP and OWASP Top 10, Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You should feel comfortable explaining technical concepts in simple terms.
• Experience working in fast-paced, Agile environments, balancing priorities across multiple projects.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading development teams.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with Algolia, Ninetailed, and Salsify
• Experience with front-end technologies like React and frameworks like NextJs
• Experience with Terraform and DevOps principles
• Certification in Cloud Development on any modern platform

What you'll do?

• This is a hands-on leadership role. As the design lead, we expect you to take the lead design role on key projects as well as delegating and managing the entire design team.
• Provide guidance and support for a team of 5-6+ designers. Direct and inspire teams to create consistent and cohesive design work across a diverse range of clients.
• You'll lead and earn the trust of clients at all levels by displaying credibility in your professional capacity, an unbiased perspective and unique take on their business challenges, a passion for their brand and their customers, and an uncompromising commitment to their success.
• Demonstrate fearlessness in the face of the unknown and a desire to bring order to the world through design inquiry. While working on several projects, you’ll also conceptualize and collaborate with internal teams on marketing ideas and experiences.
• Your expertise in design will help lead clients, team members and peers to think about ways that solve business challenges while meeting brand and customer needs.

What you have:

• Experience | 5-10 years of experience in an agency or design studio,
• Body of Work | Portfolio featuring a wide range of creative work that displays mastery of your skills, ideas and execution. Expertise in the formal elements of visual design, including typography, colour, layout, balance, proportion, rhythm, emphasis, and unity.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and MS Office. UI/UX experience is a bonus.
• Proven design-led conceptual and campaign experience; demonstrated success working on integrated campaigns that include digital, social, and/or emerging media.
• Experience working across multiple parallel work streams and within a flexible and agile environment.
• Ability to assess work, delegate tasks, hire resources and manage the team output effectively.

• Understand product specifications and user psychologyConduct concept and usability testing and gather feedbackCreate personas through user research and dataDefine the right interaction model and evaluate its successDevelop wireframes and prototypes around customer needsFind creative ways to solve UX problems (e.g. usability, findability)Work with UI designers to implement attractive designsCommunicate design ideas and prototypes to developersKeep abreast of competitor products and industry trends

Oddr is looking for an experienced senior frontend engineer to help us build modern web-based Cloud applications. The ideal candidate should be able to bring new ideas to the table and design and implement the frontend architecture with a strong emphasis on its robustness, testability, re-usability, performance, and ease of maintenance. As a senior engineer, the candidate should be able and willing to mentor and guide fellow team members as the team scales and grows. The candidate should demonstrate leadership qualities, be a self-motivated team player, and take pride in what they deliver.

The candidate should be interested in a long-term stable career to grow with our company. The candidate will need to work late night hours because of the geographic distribution of the team.

Technical Requirements:

• Strong proficiency in React.js and its core principles
• Solid understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and other standard frontend technologies and tools
• Experience with frontend test automation frameworks and tools
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Experience with modern authorization techniques like JWT
• Experience with monitoring and improving frontend performance
• General understanding and knowledge of the UI/UX best practices
• Ability to write clean, well-structured code with proper abstraction and re-usability
• Ability to work to tight deadlines, manage priorities, and take responsibility for delivering to time and quality requirements
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills

Minimum qualifications required:

• Bachelor's degree or relevant certification from a reputable institute.
• 5 years of experience with at least 2 years of building enterprise applications using React.js in recent projects.

• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web and mobile-based business applications.
• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery.
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Provide third-level support to business users.
• Research and evaluate a variety of software products.
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.
• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications.
• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards.
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software