Lead Node.JS Developer | Onsite in Dallas, TX (Only Locals)

1. Lead Node.js API Development:
   • Design, implement, and optimize scalable RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express.js (or similar frameworks).
   • Architect API systems for maximum scalability, resilience, and performance.
   • Ensure that APIs are modular, reusable, and easy to maintain.
   • Integrate with third-party services, databases, and other internal systems.
2. Resilience Engineering:
   • Apply principles of resilience engineering to design APIs that gracefully handle failures and continue to perform under stress.
   • Implement retry logic, circuit breakers, and rate-limiting to ensure the APIs can withstand transient failures.
   • Use techniques such as load balancing, failover mechanisms, and distributed architectures to improve fault tolerance.
3. Monitoring & Observability:
   • Set up and maintain real-time monitoring and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, or New Relic.
   • Ensure comprehensive logging, tracing, and metrics collection (e.g., through OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or Zipkin) to provide visibility into system health.
   • Proactively identify bottlenecks or performance issues and implement optimizations.
   • Collaborate with the DevOps team to ensure system health and visibility across all environments.
4. API Security:
   • Implement security best practices for API development (e.g., OAuth2, JWT tokens, rate limiting, IP listing, and API gateways).
   • Regularly perform code reviews and audits to ensure security vulnerabilities are mitigated.
5. Team Leadership & Collaboration:
   • Lead and mentor a team of Node.js developers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and career development.
   • Drive adoption of best practices in API development, monitoring, and resilience across the team.
   • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including front-end developers, DevOps, and QA to deliver high-quality software.
   • Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives to ensure the team is aligned and focused on the right goals.
6. Continuous Improvement:
   • Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and frameworks that can improve development efficiency, monitoring capabilities, or resilience.
   • Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the development team.
   • Ensure the team adopts DevOps practices and that software is fully automated for CI/CD pipelines.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Essential:
  • 5+ years of experience in Node.js development, with at least 2+ years of experience in a leadership role.
  • Strong expertise in designing and building RESTful APIs using Node.js.
  • Experience in building highly available, fault-tolerant systems that can handle production-level traffic.
  • Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, New Relic).
  • Experience with resilience patterns such as circuit breakers, retry logic, and rate limiting.
  • Deep understanding of API security best practices (OAuth2, JWT, API Gateways, etc.).
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure) and serverless architectures.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, etc.).
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.