Senior Full Stack Engineer - Team Lead

The Senior Software Engineer is a full-stack developer who drives platform development by making architecture decisions to ensure we are building quality applications and products across the company.  This person is responsible for building, expanding, and scaling both our APIs and our user-facing applications. They should have in-depth experience working with ReactJS, Node, and GraphQL as well as a history of working closely with management and other leads to coordinate work across all the initiatives of an Engineering team.   

We are a dynamic tech and product team with engineers all over the world.  You would be joining a fast-paced company with a team of experienced engineers. The ideal candidate will have a strong engineering background, a can-do attitude, and a strong vision for improving overall engineering/product development efficiencies and output.

Job responsibilities include:

• Acting as a full-stack developer who drives platform development by making architecture decisions to ensure that we are building quality applications and products across the company
• Leading a team of engineers by setting standards & best practices, while also doing code reviews
• Architecting and developing highly scalable web applications by building, expanding, and scaling both our APIs (in GraphQL) and our user-facing applications
• Advancing the architecture of our platform to solve business problems at scale with reusable, test-driven, efficient code
• Interacting with business stakeholders and the product team as the technical lead to develop new products and features while analyzing feasibility and difficulty, to provide estimates and timelines 
• Researching and learning new technologies that might be appropriate for current or future products

The ideal candidate:

About You

• Self-directed, independent, an excellent communicator, anticipate problems before they happen, have experience owning complete features and products, and regularly engage in pair programming and mentoring other engineers
• Skills and experience to lead a team of engineers
• Expert ability in negotiating difficult tradeoffs 
• Must be self-motivated and adaptable to changing technologies and requirements
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Not afraid to speak up, we want to know your thoughts and input, this is not just a heads-down environment. 
• You thrive in an agile, fast-paced team, while leveraging past experiences working in startup environments to help the organization/engineering team scale

Requirements

• Have mentored junior developers and led teams (this is a leadership, not management role)
• 7+ years of enterprise experience as a web developer
• 2+ years experience with ReactJS
• 2+ years experience building server-side applications to handle events, custom business logic, data transformation and other functions in NodeJS  
• Strong skills needed in: Javascript, ES6, TypeScript, NodeJS, Git
• Previous experience building GraphQL or REST APIs (preferably GraphQL in a production env)
• Excellent understanding of relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL), and in-depth experience modeling complex data relationship schemas and solving performance issues 
• Experienced using TDD and testing best practices
• Deep knowledge of object-oriented design (DRY, SOLID, GoF, DDD) 
• Proficient working between front-end and back-end stacks
• Github requirement- Ensure Github is updated with accurate information.

Would be a Plus

• Experience working within Scrum/Agile/Kanban methodologies
• Experience with Vue or Angular (Vue preferred)
• Experience working with Ruby
• Experience with mobile development tools (Ionic, Cordova, Capacitor, React Native, Android SDK);
• Experience working with CSS-in-JS techniques and tooling;
• Experience with platforms like Hasura and Postgraphile