Full stack Lead (Typescript, react, NodeJS, e-commerce)

Major Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers developing cloud-native applications and services for marketplace product
• Design and implement distributed compute clusters and services that will form the core of our marketplace solution
• Continuously improve operational excellence through a culture of learning and ongoing, proactive investments in reliability and resiliency of our ground services
• Collaborate, negotiate and persuade various architecture and development teams supported by strong technical facts
• Develops functional block diagrams and data/logic flow charts to communicate with Architects and team members
• Reviews, evaluates, and analyzes design interfaces. Prepares, reviews, and evaluates interface documentation, specifications, test plans and procedures.
• Deeply understand how developers can use Node.js at PAC to create the optimal solutions and abstractions for their use cases, and to help drive and evolve best practices
• Promote design patterns that make it easier for developers to enhance and maintain their software
• Address complex design problems with simple, intuitive designs
• Drive adoption of new technology into existing complex systems
• Provide estimates and oversight within a Scrum environment
• Work with dev-ops to develop training plans for the development teams
• Work with internal stake holders to evaluate requirements, and convey them into work items with the team
• Support and troubleshoot issues (process & system), identify cause, and proactively recommend sustainable corrective actions
• Ability to work with complex system design specifications and provides systems engineering support on large-scale systems, major system elements, and/or interfacing systems, requiring extensive investigation and clarification.
• Write testable and well-documented frontend and backend code

Technical Qualifications

Must Have

• 8+ years of full-stack, enterprise web development experience for scalable and distributed platforms
• At least 4+ years of production NodeJS experience; understand Typescript EcmaScript, and ES2015+ concepts
• Exposure to AWS technologies such as AWS Lambda, AWS Config, SNS, deployment pipelines, Multi-Region and AZ deployments, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cost modeling AWS resources
• Solid understanding of REST, containerization, polyglot programming, caching, as well as Event-Driven and Microservice-based architectures
• Real world experience designing, developing and defending a modern distributed compute platform
• Expertise with AWS and exposure to one or more major cloud providers (Azure, Google)
• Strong API development experience and exposure to various formats such as REST Open API
• Ability to guide team members and maintain team s extensible, clean, and performant code in Javascript.
• Working experience with database and message broker deployment, configuration, monitoring, and debugging.
• Strong design and developments of AWS SQS queue patterns
• Database design skills for relational and non-relational databases with various non-relational database systems and their trade-offs
• Strong Container Development, Layering and Deployment experience such as Docker
• Solid experience working with Cloud Formation Templates / SAM Templates
• Exposure to CI, CD and Container Orchestration Services such as AWS Fargate, AWS ECS, AWS ECR and EKS
• Exposure to IAM Identities and Policies
• Exposure to GIT based source repositories such as GitLab, Bitbucket etc

Good to Have

• Comfortable writing code in one or more of the multiple languages such as Python/Go and Java in addition to JavaScript
• Exposure to Kubernetes, Ansible / Vagrant and Terraform
• Exposure to JSON schema
• Exposure Messaging /Streaming Services, such as Kinesis, Kafka
• Understanding compliance, security, and data protection policies such as GDPR, PCI, PSD-2 etc.

Education or Experience required

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of full-stack web development experience
• 4+ years of production NodeJS experience
• Avionics development experience is a plus