technical lead

Node.Js Developer Job Description:

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining all server-side components.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, debugging, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.
• Recruiting, mentoring, personal and professional development of new team members
• Managing the team of Nodejs Developers and solving their queries.
• Follow and improve code quality standards
• You would be responsible to take interviews for Node.js Technologies & share practical tasks with the candidates if required.
• Conduct Code Reviews and help the team learn about the mistakes to avoid
• Develop standard practices for developers to continuously improve the quality
• Develop Architecture and design for the complex business problems
• Deployment of code, database migrations, and a thorough understanding of the impact of changes in the production environment
• Understanding and augmenting the system and application architecture as needed
• The ability to organize the development process, create a working atmosphere and distribute the workload in the team.
• Identify programming bottlenecks and bugs and find fixes.
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies.
• Strong understanding of git.
• learn new technology and distribute it to team members.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• At least 1+ years of experience as a Node.js developer.
• Must have good communication skills in English. 
• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
• Great organizational and time management skills.
• Knowledge of development methodology.
• Must be willing to do hands-on coding where required and perform regular code reviews etc.
• Understanding trends and being able to critically assess.
• Availability to resolve urgent web application issues outside of business hours.
• Experience working in a team leadership role

About Our Client

It is a last-mile tech-logistics solution provider for intra-state deliveries based in Bangalore. It offers reliable, affordable, and professional services, structured to serve enterprises.

Our Client aggregates light commercial vehicles for urban logistics and has onboarded 55,000+ truckers on its platform across 14 cities. Our Client works across industry sectors like organized retail, FMCG and e-commerce, distribution and 3PL companies. Some of its clients include Amazon, Flipkart, Bisleri, Vishal Mega Mart, Future Supply Chain, Coca-Cola, Delhivery, and Udaan.

The company offers customized logistics solutions for clients, along with other value-added services such as screened drivers, audited and GPS-enabled vehicles, point-to-point billing, status updates, 24x7 service, and greater efficiency, all at transparent and economical pricing.

Our Client, as a brand, is known as one of the market leaders in the enterprise segment, and first movers to identify and empathize with the underserved urban trucker community, playing a huge role in making them a part of the mainstream economy. This series-B funded tech-logistics company aims to disrupt the primitive $35bn+ urban-logistics industry by leveraging technology and help enterprises to reach consumers faster.

Our Client is India's largest enterprise urban-logistics provider in India, with 55,000+ Light Commercial Vehicles on its platform.

Why Our Client?

1) Young Startup growing and well funded.

What will I do?

- Designing user flows and converting them into logical entities in the code.

- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.

- Designing Database schemas.

- Building reusable code and libraries for future use

- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability

- Implementation of security and data protection

- Design and implementation of data storage solutions

What skills should I have?

- 3+ years of experience in Backend Development.
- Language: NodeJs
- Additional knowledge of Python will be a plus
- Understanding of microservices architecture.
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes

- Data migration, transformation, and scripting

- 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 automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Experience: 6 to 10 Years

Must have:

• Experience in leading teams and handling communication among engineers and product managers,and have worked with mobile teams and product teams.
• Experience working on RFC documentation.
• Experience in architecting the software, estimating tasks, breaking down into subtasks, prioritizing tasks as per need, and timely delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing mobile-first applications.
• Creating and maintaining clean and clear front-end code and backend APIs for our web and mobile applications.
• Automation and Deployments of builds - Frontend and Backend.
• Application Performance And Error Monitoring and Automation
• Maintaining excellent test coverage for our code base.
• Follow best practices while reviewing pull requests
• Working with our shared services and field teams to identify application bottlenecks and make relevant architectural decisions.
• Working with our front-end application developers to optimize performance across our system.
• Designing administrative tools for our shared services and business development teams
• Constantly optimizing our code bases with an eye for modularity and legibility.
• Writing documentation for our external and internal APIs.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of RESTful JSON web API design principles.
• Demonstrable experience with NodeJS, Express. JS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Familiarity with popular NodeJS packages (e. g. express, socket-io).
• Must have experience with test driven development(TDD).
• Experience in JavaScript development.
• Experience in backend web development.
• Containerisation experience working with Docker/ Kubernetes/ Docker Swarm
• Familiarity with multiple additional programming languages/stacks.
• Experience with NoSQL databases, ideally MongoDB.
• Experience with RDBMS databases like MySQL/PostgreSQL.
• An excellent understanding of distributed systems and their tradeoffs.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Ability to clearly articulate technical problems, design and implementation choices to a broad range of stakeholders (e. g. sales team, users, security experts).
• Experience working with web sockets.
• Familiarity with the AWS stack.
• Experience in application security testing.
• Familiarity with client-side JavaScript frameworks and best practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD Pipeline.
• Contributions to open source communities.

Perks and Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Competitive salary and bonus program
• Annual company retreats to fantastic places
• Unlimited Vacation Policy
• Great healthcare coverage
• Professional development allowance
• Internet Allowance
• Customised CMMversary rewards on your 1,3,5,7 and 10-year work anniversaries
• Career Enablement – We meld your upskilling initiatives with organization’s strategic planning
• Take your Birthday Off

• BackEnd Technologies:

• Technical knowledge:

• It is important to adapt to changing requirements
• Have the ability to integrate external systems

How many hours are they expected to work? 

• - Full time position ( 40+ hours a week) 
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What hours should they work?

•  - Prefer 9-5 EST but there is wiggle room
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Will there be nights and weekends? 

• - Nights and weekends are not scheduled, however we are looking for someone that takes pride in their work and will lean in to hit a deadline or to fix a bug if it has a significant impact on the platform.
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Should they be expected to lead?

• - Yes, you should be expected to lead and to communicate/ cooperate with other devs as a team. Some coding might be alone but the hope of the app is that it all works seamlessly together and to ensure that there needs to be communication among all devs front end and back end. 
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Who will they report to?

• - They will report to Product OwnerRob and Product ManagerJulietta daily for standups and well as pushing tasks through the appropriate structure of review, QA, and production. 
• They will also report and check in with Client SuccessCourtney as we look to make the app have a seamless customer experience and customer value. The goal of Attribute should be to try and give as much value as quickly and easily as possible.

Will they work alone or in a team?

• In some spots they might be expected to work alone and on a separate sprint from others, however, everything needs to tie in and work together, because of that the developer must be team oriented in both development and problem solving.
• Additionally, there will be times that they should expect to work with people who are not particularly tech savvy ( ie. sales, marketing, customer success etc.) to collaborate on a specific feature to produce the best thing for the product.

Accountability

• The developer is both accountable for their code and the code of the team. They should take care and responsibility in the work that is done and if there are problems with the code in QA or production work as diligently as possible to fix that problem ( whether it is their code directly or not).
• As part of this all code will be attached from Github to Jira for developers to constantly upload their commits to Jira tasks
• A mistake is completely fine and expected, bugs are to be expected. What is asked is that you report it as soon as possible and are honest about it so that we can move forward in resolving it as soon as possible.

Customer, Usability, and Value Focused

• The end user of our product will be marketing professionals/head of marketing. At all times the developers need to take this into account and spend time thinking of the ease and the use cases that people will utilize their code or features in real life versus what is a way to make something work but in a vacuum. 

Quality focused

• Pushing out code is awesome, but if the code has a ton of bugs and does not do the required action that is practical for the user then it does not matter. We want a developer who is Quality focused and also hold their other developers accountable.

Focused on the whole 

• When producing a feature it is easy to sometime get sucked into how that features works in a vacuum. The developers need to be able to work together and understand the software architecture as a whole in order to make whatever feature they are working on be able to work with the other features that are built within the app ( and will be built or are on the roadmap for the future).

Creativity and Experimentation

• Developers are expected to work within structures, however, they are always encouraged to take time to think of creative solutions and to collaborate on new features or ways of making the product better.

Unfeathered, Honest, Respectful Communication

• Every developer should feel free to speak their mind in a respectful manner to other developers as well as anyone else in the entirety of the company. Any opinion, thought, or perspective will be listened to and valued. 

Next Man or Woman Up Mentality

• Never should anyone on the team defer a problem and say “ thats not my fault or problem”. We are one unit and one company. One problem is everyone's problem and should lean in to the “next man up philosophy” if you have the time and can help to fix the problem and bring it to a solution you should be willing to.

Upward Mobility and Vesting Opportunity

• This position will allow for upward mobility, increased responsibility, and for people who constantly go above and beyond an opportunity to vest into and own equity in the company