Lead Full Stack Developer

Description

• Lead the expansion and modernization of our tech infrastructure, meticulously shaping the architecture and strategy to enhance our tech stack

• Actively contribute to coding efforts, crafting high-quality, scalable code for both front-end and back-end components, ensuring alignment with project goals and technical standards

• Lead by example in creating detailed, clear, and accessible documentation for code, systems, and processes, enhancing team understanding and facilitating future development efforts

• Cultivate, mentor, and lead a team of talented developers, promoting a culture of collaboration, innovation, and high performance

• Engage in productive teamwork within a group of highly skilled developers, elevating collective capabilities in a supportive and enjoyable environment

• Champion a product-centric agile methodology, prioritising customer-facing features through continuous deployment, embracing best practices, automated testing, and minimising maintenance overhead in all products

Requirements

• Proven track record leading development of modern, high-performance web applications end-to-end

• Strong proficiency in Javascript, TypeScript, with solid experience across both backend (Node.js) and frontend (Next.js), including integration with headless CMS platforms (e.g., Builder.io or similar)

• Good understanding of relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization

• Experience designing or integrating lightweight asynchronous processing or job queue systems (e.g., SQS)

• Practical experience deploying, monitoring, and optimizing applications on cloud providers

• Comfortable designing, improving, and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent)

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform or Pulumi

• Demonstrated ability to optimize for Core Web Vitals, guaranteeing superior user experiences across web platforms

• Understanding of application observability and performance monitoring in production environments

• Committed to engineering excellence through testing, maintainable code, and thorough documentation

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants

• Prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type

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