Technical Lead - Backend - EdTech

Experience 7 to 15 years

Job Location : Bengaluru / Delhi NCR / Mumbai

About Our Client - ED Tech Start-up

Role: Technical Lead:

- Gather functional requirements from product management/UX teams and translate requirements into technical specifications to build robust, scalable, supportable solutions

- Lead the team throughout the development lifecycle, from scoping, planning, conception, design, implementation and testing, to documentation, delivery and maintenance.

- Research, design and build highly reliable, available and scalable platforms

- Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.

- Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices

- Be able to conceptualize and develop prototype quickly

- Working with a cross-discipline team of Design, Product, Data Science and Analytics team.

- Active participation in the hiring process to bring quality engineers in the team.

Requirements:

- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript

- Strong proficiency of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express

- Good experience in driving small product feature teams with end-to-end delivery

- Strong demonstrable experience of mentoring team members

- Strong understanding and experience of creating highly scalable and complex database design

- Good understanding of Data Modelling using RDBMS and NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch,

Redis) data stores

- Strong problem-solving skills with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms

- Strong understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3

- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

- Experience of creating highly scalable, fault tolerant, resilient distributed systems

- Strong knowledge of creating scalable system design and good understanding of microservice based architectures

- Understanding of caching enabled, PubSub and event driven architectures

- Hands on experience and good knowledge of AWS services

- Understanding automated testing platforms like selenium and unit tests like Chai, Mocha, Jasmine etc

- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

- B.E/B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech/M.S.

- Curiosity to explore the cutting-edge technologies and bake them in the products.

- Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.

- 7+ years of experience in back-end development preferably in microservice environment.