Lead Full - Stack Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Design and Development: Architect, build, and deploy scalable, high-performance software solutions, covering both client-side and server-side applications.
• Technical Leadership: Guide the squad in technical decision-making, ensuring the team follows best practices in code quality, design patterns, architecture, security, and performance.
• Hands-On Engineering: Spend most of your time writing and reviewing code, designing APIs, and ensuring high-quality, maintainable software.
• Full Stack Development: Build any necessary user interfaces in collaboration with our UX team and develop well-functioning APIs and services.
• Mentorship and Coaching: Support and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Cloud and Infrastructure: Deploy and manage applications on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads.
• Quality and Testing: Champion Test-Driven Development (TDD), automated testing, and CI/CD, ensuring deployments are secure and reliable.

Requirements:

• Tech stack: We use TypeScript (Node.js and React), AWS (EKS, Lambda, Aurora RDS), Kubernetes, GraphQL, Kafka, and Mongo. You're comfortable with all of these and have extensive knowledge of JavaScript more generally, the AWS ecosystem, and running containerized applications.
• Past Experience: You are currently a Lead Engineer or Tech Lead, leading a small team of software engineers.
• API and Database Development: You have experience building and running robust, always-on APIs (both RESTful and GraphQL-based) and underlying services/apps, including the databases that underpin them.
• Test-Driven Development: You're very familiar with testing frameworks such as Jest and Pact.
• Cloud and DevOps: You can build, deploy, and run your systems end-to-end, with no manual configuration or intervention. We use Terraform and Helm.
• CI/CD: You have plenty of experience managing and configuring CI/CD pipelines (we use GitHub Actions) for deployments.
• Observability Mindset: You believe in measuring everything. You've worked with DataDog (or similar) to ensure your team has the necessary visibility into system health.
• Tooling and Collaboration: Comfortable working with Git, Confluence, Jira, and modern engineering workflows.
• Mentorship and Leadership: You've mentored engineers at all levels, providing guidance, reviewing designs, and ensuring your team stays on the right track.
• Self-Starter and Problem-Solver: Ability to take a product challenge and develop a working technical solution, balancing pragmatism with engineering excellence.