Tech Lead - React JS (Web) and Node JS

Summary role description:

Hiring for Technical Lead - Full Stack for a global InsurTech SaaS product company

Company description:

Our client is a global digital SaaS platform InsureTech company headquartered in Silicon Valley providing omnichannel customer acquisition platform, Analytics powered customer engagement, services, and self-service portals and apps for agents as well as policyholders.

Role details:

• Title / Designation: Technical Lead – Full Stack
• Reporting Manager: Director of Product Engineering
• Location: Hyderabad/Hybrid

Role & Responsibilities:

• Develop, deploy, support, and implement web application projects
• Build scalable architecture, reusable patterns, and libraries for future use
• Conduct performance testing, review results, identify bottlenecks and report code
• Proactively identify and resolve potential problems/issues including authoring technical specifications
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Keeping up to date with industry trends and developments
• Motivate team members to learn the required skills and stay up to date on the execution
• Mentor, lead, and guide a team of Software Engineers

Candidate requirements:

• Overall, 6+ years of experience as Full stack developer, with a minimum 1-year experience in product development
• Experience in leading a team of 3+ members
• Experience in one or more of
  • Frontend – AngularJS/Angular/ReactJS/VueJS
  • Backend – PHP/Java/Python/NodeJS/Golang
  • DB – Any relational Database (like MySQL, Oracle, or Postgres)
• Should have experience in restful JSON web services
• Should be competent in CI /CD tooling
• Experience working with 3rd party software integrations like REST APIs, SOAP APIs, XML, JSON

Selection process:

• Code pair
• 2 Technical interviews
• Final round

B.S. in software development, computer science or related field (Equivalent experience also accepted) 

·  1+ years of relevant work experience in software development and design.  

·  Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals (e.g, algorithms and data structures).  

·  Deep understanding of JavaScript or TypeScript and at least one JS UI framework React ·  
Deep understanding of Node.js and at least one Node server framework (Express, NextJS, NestJS). 

·  Deep understanding of the full software development lifecycle. 

·  Experience designing/implementing/integrating with APIs.  

·  Solid understanding of database systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLServer).  

·  Solid understanding of Git and managed source control services like GitHub. 

·  Experience working within Agile software development teams. 

·  Foundational knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS). 

·  Excellent written and oral communication skills. 

• 2-4 years of experience working with web platforms (at a corporate, startup, or digital agency)

Work Ethic & Requirements

• Experience with the development of large-scale websites and a strong understanding of web development technologies, third-party applications and platforms, and social media.
• You should be able to handle multiple projects at the same time.
• You should have the ability to motivate, support, and understand teams and easily work with everyone from our UX/visual designers to tech developers to content strategists.
• You should be motivated and organized. A proactive attitude is most important.
• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines with little or no supervision
• The ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team 

Tech Skills

• Python/Django
• React JS
• Node JS

Sportz Interactive (SI) works with its clients and partners to revolutionize the sports fan experience across consumption points by creating best-in-class, kickass products. SI was founded in 2002 as a B2B sports content business. Through the years, it gained immense reputation for its state-of-the-art hosted solutions, digital simulators, match centers and fantasy games. Sportz Interactive has a fantastic reputation in the online sports community, having worked with clients across the globe including the likes of The International Cricket Council, STAR Sports, Yahoo!, AOL, Eurosport, Castrol, Web 18, NDTV, Nimbus, Times of India, Rediff.com and Singtel amongst others. 

Sportz Interactive provides in-depth sports information and content and specializes in product development for the web, mobile and other interactive platforms. 
http://www.sportzinteractive.net/">www.sportzinteractive.net 

•  4-10 years of experience with JavaScript, JQuery, Vue.js, Node.js
• Experience in managing a team is mandatory.
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Good understanding of front-end technologies.
•  Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
•  Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes implementing unit tests
•  Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based application projects and bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Manager and Engineering Manager to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product specification and be able to ask questions and gather information and feedback to build a well rounded solution.
• Deliver end to end applications starting from front end web development, back end development, middleware integration and persisting data in no SQL or RDBMS databases.
• Should be able to use existing front-end components to build web based UI interfaces.
• Strong technical design approach to problem solving for backend services.
• Should be able to communicate and defend the tech design choices taken for long term scalability and maintainability.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment.
• Should be able to help other developers with challenges and help achieve milestones as per plan.

• Prioritise to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Document API specification, technical design and other key information for all projects/modules/services owned

Requirements:

• A highly talented developer with 4-7 years of hands-on experience in building secure and scalable web-based applications using Java in backend and JS-based frontend frameworks
• Strong knowledge of Java 8+, databases (SQL and NoSQL), MySql, Mongo
• Experience working with Cassandra, Spring Boot, Apache Spark, Kafka, RabbitMQ is highly desirable
• Working knowledge of any one or more of AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS and CSS3, HTML5
• Strong experience in data modeling for data storage tools in SQL; experience with noSQL is highly desirable.
• Experience building scalable solutions for 2x, 5x and 10x growth with high quality and flexibility.
• Practitioner of test-driven development practices.
• Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment.
• Basic knowledge of AWS preferred
• Strong experience in Microservices (SRP) paradigm
• Willing to learn new technologies (Golang)

• Qualification B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA(IT/Computer Science)
• Years of Exp 4 - 7 years

• 2+ years of experience participating in the delivery of technology services.
• A proven ability to learn new applications & innovate in technology
• Strong Experience in technologies like Node, Webservices and Microservices
• Experience with cloud components and services and containerization technologies is desirable
• Exposure to ReactJS mandatory
• Experience working with multiple types of datastores: Mongo DB, SQL
• Experience in integrating, designing and developing solutions is desirable
• Experience with CI/CD and TDD is desirable
• Frameworks - Express , Hapi , feathers
• Strong knowledge in Javascript