NodeJS/AWS TeamLead

N.B! - Preferrable locations: remote from Latvia, Lithuania, Spain, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary 

In a partnership with one of the global consulting companies, we are looking for a Software Engineer Team Lead. The client is a UK-based telecommunication company (Platform Migration Team).

Roles/Responsibilities 

• Lead the development of software that addresses complex product and business challenges.

• Provide constructive code reviews to maintain high standards and support team growth.

• Deliver high-quality, production-ready code, ensuring successful completion of team goals.

• Integrate software with monitoring and support tools to ensure operational excellence.

• Create, review, and maintain clear technical documentation.

• Actively participate in and occasionally lead agile planning, delivery processes, and retrospectives.

• Collaborate with Architect, delivery, and technical leads to design software and breakdown into implementable tasks and be able to navigate ambiguity.

• Contribute to test frameworks to verify functional and non-functional requirements.

• Communicate status information and issues to a variety of stakeholders

• Troubleshooting and resolving issues

• Able to mediate between teams and individuals to successful outcomes ensuring teams are collaborating and communicating well with each other

Essential

• Strong experience with test-driven development and a deep understanding of testing and QA practices.

• Skilled in addressing operational concerns like monitoring, performance testing, scaling, availability, resilience, and security.

• Proficient in translating product requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.

• Excellent development skills and experience building highly scalable applications

• Experience of NodeJS/Typescript

• Experience with the following AWS services:

o Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK

o Lambda

o SNS & SQS

o API Gateway

Desirable

• Experience of Dynamo DB and Aurora PostgreSQL

• Building Operational Alarms based on CloudWatch metrics

• Implementing CI/CD pipelines

o GitHub actions using AWS Code Build self-hosted runners

• Grafana availability tooling

• Familiarity with event-based architecture and microservices environments