R&D Team Leader (Node JS)

We’re Day.io. We’re the undisputed leaders and history makers in time tracking innovation. We make achieving the impossible look easy. We’re a diverse group, spread across the globe, who are united by a shared set of values and goals. Since 2016, we're proud to have a large variety of paying customers of all sizes - SMBs, Medium Enterprise & Government, that have benefited from the platform.

We’re looking for a highly motivated R&D Team Leader who enjoys working on complex products in a fast-paced and challenging environment to join the undisputed leaders and history makers in time-tracking innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Leads an R&D team (5-6 engineers) in the technical aspects of product development lifecycle through the research, planning and execution.

• Understand customer requirements & establish team’s goals and priorities by collaborating with other teams (Marketing, QA and Operations).

• Research, design and evaluate new services.

• Work in parallel on several application components.

• Monitor team metrics and objectives ensuring meeting of goals.

• Document all phases of research and development.

• Support and cooperate with other R&D teams within the project.

• Collaborate with product professionals.

• Improve system performance and scalability

Requirements

Education/Skills:

• B.Sc. in Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent

• Strong execution, communication & interpersonal skills

• High commitment & dedication to the project and team

• Leadership and motivational skills

• Project management skills & High self-learning ability

• English - Full proficiency

Experience:

• 2+ years’ experience in leading a team of software engineers

• 6+ years of experience designing and developing scalable systems

• 5+ years of experience with Node.js

• Experience with microservices architecture

• Proficient with unit testing

• Experience with RDBMS and nosql databases

• Experience with message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS, etc…)

• Experience with clouds and SaaS architectures

• Basic linux system administration skills.

• Experience with Redis and Elasticsearch

• Experience working with Kubernetes - nice to have

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform - nice to have