Lead Node.JS Developer

Line manager

Artur Aardma, CTO.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside the product developers, designer, product manager and CTO to iterate on new features.
• Take responsible for establishing best practices for technical architecture, quality control, scalable design and modularity of the codebase. This includes tooling strategies, operational excellence concerns, code reviews etc.
• Help to identify areas of improvements in the codebase and help contribute to making it better.
• Frequently pair with teammates to give and receive feedback from a code review to boost knowledge-sharing, learning and improve the platform.
• Nurture the talent in your area, collaborating with them to enhance their skill set.
• Establish the processes and set the bar for client engineering, performance and code quality, and enable extensibility of engineering solutions by ensuring the team builds clean, extensible and modular components.
• Continually assess the current and long term infrastructure needs for the organisation looking around corners for unknowns and creating a proactive strategy and operating plan.

Requirements

• A product-minded Senior Backend Developer with proven software development track record of delivering scalable, maintainable solutions across the entire stack.
• Ready to be a key engineering figure, who has a great foundation of best practices and demonstrates a drive to continually learn and mentor those around you.
• Ready to own the design, development, and support of core product features and prototypes from idea to delivery into production.
• Confident in making backend architectural decisions.
• Experienced in developing Backend software using Javascript/TypeScript.
• Experienced in microservices architecture.
• Experienced in PostgreSQL and AWS stack.

Nice to have:

• Experienced in design patterns such as Flyweight.
• Experienced in HR or time tracking systems.
• Experienced in GraphQL.

Company offers

• Competitive salary in a profitable company.
• International candidates; we cover relocation costs, help with immigration processes (Visa) and housing.
• 28 days of paid time off a year, plus our approx. 12 national holidays. We count paid time off on working days, this way you really get 28 days of paid time off. Totally 40 free working days a year to recharge, so you could perform on a highest level.
• Unlimited text and audiobooks subscriptions.
• Budget for attending educational courses, workshops, seminars.
• Budget for finding a mentor who could help you forward professionally.
• Daily office breakfast.
• €3,700 budget for a laptop and other gear you need for work.
• 4 company-wide full expenses covered meetups a year for team-building.
• Monthly full expenses covered team based mini meetups for team-building.
• Possibility to work from home 1.5 days a week/take an extended period of remote work.
• Paid sick leave: You can use sick leave when it’s registered by your doctor. As a perk we maintain your average salary for the first three days which are typically unpaid.

Hiring process

• Screening interview 1h.
• Technical interview (CTO Artur) 2h.
• Technical assignment / Build a small API 1 week.
• Technical assignment review CTO Artur & Senior Front-end or Back-end DEV) 1 day.
• CEO interview (CEO) 1h.

Useful links

• Сompany's website: link.