The Lead Fullstack Engineer will design and develop scalable services, lead feature implementation, optimize performance, and enforce code quality standards.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable services from scratch.
- Lead the implementation of new features.
- Build beautiful user interfaces.
- Optimize application performance and ensure high availability.
- Implement best practices for code quality, testing, and CI/CD.
Required Skills:
- 7+ years experience in professional software development.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript (ES6+).
- Extensive experience with Node.js and Node.js based frameworks (Express, Fastify, NestJS).
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous programming and message queues
- (Kafka).
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases and how to efficiently leverage them (DynamoDB, MongoDB,
- Cassandra).
- Experience working with cloud services and infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
- Understanding of Agile development methodologies and practices.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with modern JavaScript web frameworks/libraries (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js).
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with AWS managed services (specifically API Gateway, Cognito, ECS, MSK,
- DynamoDB).
- Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform).
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
- stack).
- Understanding of DevOps practices and tools.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Cassandra
Cdk
CloudFormation
Cloudwatch
Docker
DynamoDB
Elk Stack
Express
Fastify
GCP
Grafana
JavaScript
Kafka
Kubernetes
MongoDB
Nestjs
Node.js
Nosql Databases
Prometheus
Restful Apis
Terraform
Typescript
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