What you'll do :

• Technical Leadership: Provide visionary technical leadership, serving as a mentor and coach to engineers across the organization. Foster a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
• Architecture and Design: Lead the design and development of complex, distributed systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security are paramount considerations. Drive innovation in architecture patterns and technologies.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical roadmaps and strategic initiatives. Identify opportunities for innovation and optimization, aligning technical solutions with business objectives.
• Hands-on Development: Have a strong hold on secure coding principles. Lead the team towards delivery of high quality secure code. Actively contribute to coding, troubleshooting, and problem-solving efforts, leveraging your expertise in server-side languages, frameworks, and cloud technologies.
• Code Review: Set high standards for code quality and conduct rigorous code reviews. Encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing among team members to maintain code excellence.
• Problem Solving: Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions.
• Collaboration: Foster strong relationships with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful delivery of features. Promote a culture of collaboration and transparency.
• Project Management: Lead the planning and execution of critical projects, ensuring timelines and deliverables are met. Provide guidance and support to teams to overcome challenges and achieve objectives.
• Innovation and Best Practices: Drive the adoption of best practices in development, architecture, and technology stack. Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for their integration where appropriate.

What makes you a great fit :

• Minimum of 10 years of proven experience as a Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or in a similar capacity.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, particularly Kubernetes, for deploying and managing containerized applications.
• Experience in delivering multi-tenant enterprise applications at scale.
• Profound expertise in a server-side language such as NodeJs, Python, Go, or similar technologies.
• Hands-on experience in API development using Typescript and frameworks such as Express is highly preferred.
• Proficiency with modern web development technologies (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js) is a strong plus.
• In-depth understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases and experience optimizing database performance at scale.
• Extensive experience with cloud computing concepts and utilizing major cloud service providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) to design and optimize cloud-based solutions.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-performance and scalable platforms in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with a strong drive to mentor and guide a team of developers towards technical excellence.
• Strong problem-solving abilities, especially in tackling complex scale architecture problems.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, AWS CloudFormation) is advantageous.