MEAN Stack Developer

Lead Developer Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Lead Developer to be responsible for managing the development team and overseeing the development of software applications and systems. The Lead Developer will be expected to collaborate with stakeholders to ensure that the development team is meeting deadlines and requirements and will be responsible for designing and implementing new software solutions.

Lead Developer Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the development team, providing guidance, mentorship, and support
• Design and develop new software solutions and maintain existing software systems
• Identify development opportunities and prioritize projects
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure that the team meets deadlines and requirements
• Provide technical oversight and ensure software quality standards are met
• Develop and manage project plans and timelines
• Also perform some hands-on development
• Monitor project progress and provide regular updates

Lead Developer Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in software development and project management
• Experience leading a development team
• Working knowledge of software development processes and methodologies
• Full stack developer with experience working in .NET and Angular

About the job

About Reflektive's Engineering Team

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Front End to help scale Reflektive to being the market leader for employee performance management. The main question to be answered: Can you help a

company scale?

Reflektive has major initiatives to tackle in the next year. Initiatives range from internal scaling, security, engagement, new verticals, pervasive technologies, research and development, data and

analytics, and customer tools. Reflektive’s Senior Software Engineer will contribute in their area of specialization. S/he will help us solve complex design challenges and mature our platform to handle

increasing traffic and scale.

You'll join a lean, prolific team where everyone, including you, is active in the product-defining and development process (where deploying new features every 2 weeks is common). You'll know the

customers we're talking to, and the needs of each one. As a result, you know where your initiative and drive can best make a difference (and be recognized!)

Our engineering team consists of developers from a wide array of backgrounds. Our team primarily focuses on Rails and Javascript, but is always ready to use the best tool for the job when it makes

sense. Following Scrum practices, we work closely with the Product Management team to develop features that focus on empowering and developing employees. Our team is a tight knit, friendly

group of engineers that are dedicated to learning from and teaching to each other. Team members regularly contribute to and optimize our engineering practices and processes. Our team wants to

make software engineering fun, easy, and fulfilling, so we've come up with a set of values that we

apply to our software every day: Simple, Flexible, Consistent, Predictable, Efficient, and Pragmatic.

Responsibilities

● Depending on your specialization, projects/initiatives may include: Security, scaling distributed systems, working on our core services related to user management, building out new verticals, guiding new engagement features, scaling traffic/imports/exports,

and managing APIs.

● Work extremely cross-functionally across Engineering and Product Management.

● Deliverable: (30 days) Own a feature; possibly being paired with another engineer. (60days) Own and drive a new initiative. (90 days) Bring that initiative to production.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Expert proficiency in Java/Kotlin, Kafka/Pulsar, SQL, Docker and kubernetes.
• Overall 4+ years of experience as Java full stack developer using any modern frameworks.
• Strong knowledge on Data structure and Algorithm knowledge
• Previous experience working in ReactJS/AngularJS (2+ years)
• Knowledge of Analytics and LookerML would be added plus.
• Exposure to cloud environment AWS.
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks including Junit.
• Startup experience is strongly desired.
• You learn quickly, you’re adaptable and versatile.
• Experience in an Agile and Scrum environment.

About Reflektive

Forward-thinking organizations use Reflektive’s people management platform to drive employee performance and development with Real-Time Feedback, Recognition, Check-Ins, Goal Management,

Performance Reviews, 1-on-1 Profiles, and Analytics. Reflektive’s more than 500 customers include Blue Origin, Comcast, Instacart, Dollar Shave Club, Healthgrades, Wavemaker Global, and Protective

Life. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and TPG Growth, Reflektive has raised more than $100 million to date, and was ranked the 13th Fastest Growing Company in North

America on Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 500TM.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status,

veteran status, or disability status.

About Kloud9:

Kloud9 exists with the sole purpose of providing cloud expertise to the retail industry. Our team of cloud architects, engineers and developers help retailers launch a successful cloud initiative so you can quickly realise the benefits of cloud technology. Our standardised, proven cloud adoption methodologies reduce the cloud adoption time and effort so you can directly benefit from lower migration costs.

Kloud9 was founded with the vision of bridging the gap between E-commerce and cloud. The E-commerce of any industry is limiting and poses a huge challenge in terms of the finances spent on physical data structures.

At Kloud9, we know migrating to the cloud is the single most significant technology shift your company faces today. We are your trusted advisors in transformation and are determined to build a deep partnership along the way. Our cloud and retail experts will ease your transition to the cloud.

Our sole focus is to provide cloud expertise to retail industry giving our clients the empowerment that will take their business to the next level. Our team of proficient architects, engineers and developers have been designing, building and implementing solutions for retailers for an average of more than 20 years.

We are a cloud vendor that is both platform and technology independent. Our vendor independence not just provides us with a unique perspective into the cloud market but also ensures that we deliver the cloud solutions available that best meet our clients' requirements.

What we are looking for:

● Overall 8+ Years of Experience in Web Application development.

● 3+ Years of Designing Middleware using NodeJS platform.

● 5+ Years of Experience in developing middleware using NodeJS

platform.

● 2+ Years of Experience in using NodeJS along with AWS Server-less

platform.

● Good Experience with Javascript / TypeScript, Event Loops,

ExpressJS, GraphQL, SQL DB (MySQLDB), NoSQL DB(MongoDB)

and YAML templates.

● Experience in developing Java, Angular, Java Full stack

● Good Experience with TDD Driven Development and Automated Unit

Testing.

● Good Experience with exposing and consuming Rest APIs and SOAP

APIs on NodeJS platform and Swagger API contracts.

● Good Experience in building NodeJS middleware performing

Transformations, Routing, Aggregation, Orchestration and

Authentication(JWT/OAUTH).

● Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a

dynamic environment.

● Experience working in Agile Scrum Methodology.

● Very good Problem Solving Skills.

● Very good learner and passion towards technology.

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

● Ability to communicate effectively with team members and business

stakeholders

Secondary Skill Requirements:

● Experience working with any of Loopback, NestJS, Hapi.JS, Sails.JS, Passport.JS

Why Explore a Career at Kloud9:

With job opportunities in prime locations of US, London, Poland and Bengaluru, we help build your career paths in cutting edge technologies of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science. Be part of an inclusive and diverse workforce that's changing the face of retail technology with their creativity and innovative solutions. Our vested interest in our employees translates to deliver the best products and solutions to our customers.

You’re Awesome at:

• Excellent communication skills (Verbal & Written)
• Great understanding of JavaScript
• Excellent hands-on programming experience of NodeJS/Express/SailsJS
• Excellent hands-on programming experience of React/Angular/Meteor/VueJS
• Good understanding of RESTful API development
• Good knowledge of TDD (Test Driven Development)
• Good understanding of MongoDb/mysql/postgres
• Good understanding of AGILE - SCRUM
• Good understanding of GitHUB, SVN
• Experience with designing of overall architecture of the application
• Good understanding of Web Securities and how to implement in application
• Hand-on designing and implementing robust and scalable web service/api
• Hand-on application deployment and cloud platform such AWS/Heroku/GoogleCloud
• Understanding of the Software Development Life cycle

• You will create REST/GraphQL based web services and APIs for consumption by mobile and web for distributed B2B platform 
• You will code, test and operate Nodejs based services
• You willI implement new features in a highly collaborative environment with product managers, UI/UX experts, and fellow engineers
• You will contribute to a future-ready, high quality, and performance code base
• You will share your technical solutions and product ideas with the team
• You will mentor other engineering team members
• You will contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure
• You will be part of a truly global team
• You will work in an exciting startup environment where you can be autonomous and try new things :)

• You have experience in backend development, using languages like Node.JS and Golang
• You have used TypeScript extensions
• You are familiar with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or CouchDB, Web services, SOA patterns
• You have good working knowledge of design patterns, building and deploying microservices on the cloud
• You have hands on experience with REST APIs or GraphQL
• You have experience with Test Driven Development and know when to apply it
• You have knowledge of web libraries and frameworks such as ReactJS/VueJS, AngularJS, and Clojure
• You have experience working on AWS or other cloud stacks and Docker 
• You have experience building / consuming OpenAPI and GraphQL specifications
• You have experience building microservices systems and testing them
• You have experience building systems with high data protection requirements, anonymous data and data encryption

• You have worked with Blockchain technology
• You have domain expertise working with decentralised identity solutions 
• You have experience of building systems that require cryptography

Here is the interview process for this role: 

• 30m interview with one of our Talent Team or Recruitment Partners
• 1h interview with our Engineers
• 1.5h pairing interview with one of our Engineers
• 3hs final interview meeting a variety of people including our CTO, Leads and other Engineers 

We can be flexible with the structure if someone's circumstances or timescales require it for good reason, just let us know! 

Please reach out if you have any specific requirements so we can be as accommodating as possible for you.

• Participate in requirements
• Maintain and improve web Design mobile-based web features.
• Work closely with Scrum team to ensure quality throughout the entire software development
• Maintain high standards of software quality by establishing, adopting and following good practices and processes
• Monitor systems to ensure they meet both customer needs and business goals
• Solve problems by crafting software solutions using maintainable, testable and modular code
• Collaborate within a team by participating in code reviews, pairing sessions, architecture discussions and planning

• Write robust, testable code, along with unit, functional, acceptance and/or user tests to validate every change
• Challenge your fellow team members to grow and enhance our team with new, diverse talent
• Mentor interns and other software engineers to grow their technical skills
• Work closely with Scrum team to ensure quality throughout the entire software development cycle.
• Identify and propose dev toolsets to enhance and extend the dev team’s capabilities & efficiency
• Manage business context and pressures around quality and time to market
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline
• 4+ years experience working in an IT environment
• 4+ years of Object-oriented design, functional programming
• Node JS API Development (Firebase API development is a plus)
• Angular or VUE or React JS Front end Development (VUE Js Experience is a plus)
• HTML / CSS responsive development
• Experience using any database
• Experience developing in an Agile / SCRUM Environment
• Experience developing mission-critical applications
• Strong business and technical acumen
• Excellent verbal and written communication skill