Lead Backend Engineer - Node.js/NestJS (5-9 yrs)

About Skuad :

Imagine a world without boundaries, where companies effortlessly discover, hire, and manage talent, regardless of geographical constraints. Skuad brings this vision to life.

We're on a mission to democratize global talent and opportunities, making remote work accessible worldwide. Skuad empowers employers to effortlessly build, pay, and oversee exceptional global teams while handling the complexities of payroll, compliance, and taxation.

Our diverse, globally distributed team is passionate about fostering inclusive work cultures and enabling customers to thrive globally. Backed by leaders with over two decades of HR expertise, our goal is to create one million opportunities globally by 2027.

Having raised $15 million in Series A funding in Oct 2022, totaling $19 million with support from returning investors Beenext and Anthemis, we're committed to driving value, learning, and continuous improvement as a united global team. In August 2024, Skuad was acquired by Payoneer.

Payoneer is a leading global payments platform that partners with freelancers, SMBs, marketplaces and enterprises to solve their biggest payment challenges. Leveraging robust technology, compliance, operations and banking infrastructure, Payoneer powers growth for entrepreneurs in emerging markets, Payoneer makes global commerce easy and secure.

What will you do?

- Translate requirements and implement product features to perfection

- Work directly with developers as a team lead and manage products to conceptualise, build, test and realise products

- Deliver best-in-class code across a broad array of interactive web and mobile products

- Work on continuous improvement of the products through innovation and learning.

- A knack for benchmarking and optimization

- Developing features for highly complex, distributed transaction processing systems.

- Implement functionality for automated tests that will successfully pass and meet coding standards.

- Debug production issues and create subsequent mitigation plans.

- Optimize the performance of existing implementations.

- Stay abreast of new innovations and the latest technology trends and explore ways of leveraging these for improving the product in alignment with the business.

What makes you a great match for us?

- 5-9 years of experience as a Backend developer.

- Experience in Node.JS & Nestjs is a must and experience in any of these is good to have - Javascript, Java, Typescript

- Database architecture and design on SQL (like Postgres) and NoSQL (like MongoDB systems.

- DOM manipulation and new CSS functionalities and processors

- Memory management, multithreaded programming and background processing.

- Unit-testing and a strong emphasis on TDD

- Debug moderately complex problems and analyze logs in production systems and to read existing code.

- Various data storage options, such as Relational, NoSQL

- Object-oriented design, data structures, and complexity analysis

- CI/CD environment with Jenkins/CircleCI

- Microservices

- Agile Development SCRUM methodology, JIRA

- Code versioning tools such as Git, Bitbucket, Mercurial, SVN, etc

- WebSocket, REDIS, Memcached, and Cloud Messaging Frameworks PUSH Notifications)

- Elasticsearch ELK stack- Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash, REST API integration.

- Have the ability to deal with ambiguity

- Critical Thinker, Problem Solver and team player