Tech Lead - Backend (Node.js)

Get your career on a pedestal with a major IT services company, led by successful entrepreneurs.

 

Our client is a sales and marketing platform for Insurance businesses. Their partners include major insurance companies, brokerage companies, NBFCs and Insurance intermediaries. Their AI based app offers their partners with a platform to enhance their product sales, distribution and far-reaching expansion. This also leads to easy and affordable insurance products and an empowering transformational experience for the end-customers.

 

The co-founders are business and tech experts from IIT, Symbiosis and MDI, who bring with them nearly 50 years of experience in Finance and IT industries, and successful entrepreneurial wisdom too. Working out of Bengaluru and Gurgaon, the team has created a single standardized platform using AI and blockchain technology to bring clarity and efficiency to the insurance sales and distribution cycle.

 

As a Tech Lead - Backend (Node.js), you will act as a primary Interface with the senior management and operations team, to support a high-performance and exponentially scalable product.

 

• Providing technical guidance as well hands on management for all product development within the company.
• Identifying frameworks/ technologies/ languages/ libraries to be used to achieve desired goals.
• Underscores pros and cons of various technologies available and presenting arguments to management and technical team.
• Taking responsibility for refactoring existing code.
• Leading, managing and mentoring a team of 5+ engineers.
• Serving as a key member of the management team that sets the company's strategic direction.
• Defining standards & best practices to support agile development processes.
• Planning, tracking and estimating product development activities.
• Ensuring the optimal application of technology and engineering resources to meet product development and/ or customer requirements as per the product and/ or marketing requirements document.
• Ensuring that the product quality is world class at all times.
• Growing the internal information technology development organisation; managing and recruiting a multidisciplinary high-performance technology team.
• Developing RESTful backend services if needed
• Ensuring implementation of formal processes to support the product development process.
• Passionate about automated testing: Managing / driving testing - unit tests, system tests, regression.
• Performance Tuning/ Profiling: In-depth understanding of popular architectures SOA, RESTful, Microservices, Messaging Bus.

 

• B.E / B.Tech or similar qualification from a premier institute.
• Good communication skills.
• Self-starter, Highly motivated.
• People Management skills.
• Go-getter attitude.
• 3 - 7 years of hands-on development experience in backend development with a track record of solid technical accomplishments. Node.js experience will be preferred.
• Knowledge of multiple programming languages will be preferred.
• Knowledge of Caching solutions Redis, Memcache
• Databases experience - MySQL/NoSQL, RabbitMQ, Kafka.
• Capability to present different architecture for the same problem.
• Knowledge of popular front end MVC technologies.
• Understanding of production level problems and their possible solutions