Lead Software Development Engineer - Node.js (5-10 yrs)

Experience : 5+ Years

Location : Mumbai(Andheri East)-WFO

Role : Lead Software Development Engineer - NodeJS

Job Responsibilities :

- Lead, mentor & manage backend engineers

- Owning end to end responsibility of API development, deployment and monitoring phases

- Evaluate requirements and create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured development strategies

- Writing efficient, clean and maintained code

- Ensure top-notch performance, quality, and responsiveness of app

- Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate development activities

- Effectively use tools and ingenuity to debug, identify and fix defects before they become a problem

- Collaborating closely with software engineers, product managers and QA teams to define, develop, and ship new features

- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

- Perform code reviews

- Setting KPIs and other metrics to measure team performance

- Team management & motivation

- Mentoring & Coaching

Required :

- Prior experience working on consumer-facing products.

- Proven 5+ years of API development experience in Node JS and Express JS/Restify/Koa

- Building scalable, secure and performance oriented RESTful-based web services / APIs

- Experience with MongoDB and analyzing the efficiency of queries

- Working understanding of NGINX

- Experience working with ElasticSearch/Solr

- Experience working with BullMQ/RabbitMQ/Kafka

- Handle concurrent user requests, ensuring minimal latency and optimal response times.

- Solid understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms, distributed systems and design patterns.

- Experience Integrating payment gateways

- integrating with logging and monitoring systems

- Solid understanding of release management

- Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins

- Must have used GIT (Source version control)

- Good understanding of Microservice Architecture

- Good understanding of system design & architecture

- Excellent communication skills

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivery high-quality results