Technical Lead: Commerce Platform (Node.js) Bucharest

Technical Lead: Commerce Platform (Node.js)
Bucureşti
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

• Provide strong technical direction.
• Resolve technical bottlenecks.
• Oversee the technical quality of deliverables.

• Appropriate software engineering practices (e. g. automated testing).
• Continuous improvements to minimise technical debt.
• Agile adaptation to changing business goals and challenges.

• Strong system design skills.
• Deep understanding of platform and modular architecture.
• Advanced collaborative skills: internal & external stakeholders.
• Proven track record of building modular frameworks with high adoption rates.

• Support purpose-driven development by designing technical solutions that are aligned with the application’s business model and use cases.  
• Create,
  - evaluate and constantly refine a technical vision that is aligned with the product goals.
• Build and nurture a collaborative team feedback culture to ensure optimal outcomes.  
• Create
  - in and alignment among the team with regards to both technical vision as well as granular choices in order to drive efficiencies.
• Take the  lead in planning, compiling and maintaining technical documentation (internal and external)
• Ensure a
  - performance, scalable and maintainable platform by choosing the right technical architecture, data model and framework.
• Apply best practices – avoid reinventing the wheel and make decisions based on impact.
• Drive Agile methodologies in the team to produce outstanding results.
• Own the quality control process – promote user satisfaction, drive code quality, and push product excellence

• Proven track record of applying design thinking to platform architecture.
• 2+ years relevant software engineering experience: building commercially successful frameworks with significant traction.
• 5+ years advanced software engineering experience in any competitive product vertical.
• 3+ years in an Agile environment that utilised Behaviour Driven Development, Test Driven Development, Event Driven Architecture, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• 2+ years experience in a software development leadership role.
• Recommended: exposure to commerce platform development, in particular, online marketplaces.

• Expert with Node
  JS (5+ years experience).
• Expert with various Node
  JS frameworks – e. g. Express, Nest, Fastify (5+ years experience).
• Expert with My
  SQL, Postgre
  SQL and Mongo
  DB (3+ years experience).
• Some developing experience with React
  JS (2+ years experience).
• Strong understanding of frontend frameworks like Next
  JS and Headless UI Frameworks such as Shad
  CN, Radix, etc.
• Experience of REST APIs / Graph
  QL.
• Use of Docker/Terraform in local and production environments.
• Experience with test automation.
• Experience with integration of
  - party applications like Stripe, Rabbit
  MQ, Redis, AWS or Elasticsearch is a plus.