Sr Architect  NodeJS Developer

Job Description

• Take an Architect role in designing the system, reviewing the code of team members and ensuring first time quality of code
• Work in a collaborative team environment.
• Communicate with customers to understand the requirements, to inform them the challenges, solutions and alternatives
• Ability to understand and analyze issues across multiple vendors and interfaces.
• Meet project objectives, providing systems that operate in a cost-effective manner.
• Respond to problems in a timely, effective manner.
• Take part in DevOps and deployment activities
• Work with key members of the management team to define and drive technical strategy.
• Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Follow technology best practices.
• Excellent development experience using web and JavaScript technologies expertise with HTML/XHTML, XML, JSON, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, AJAX, DOM, and version control systems (such as git)
• Professional JavaScript development experience
• Proven Expertise in NodeJS, ExpressJS, NPM, bootstrap, webpack
• Proficiency in DBMS and ORM concepts.
• Expertise in developing NodeJS based APIs with RDBMS or NoSQL database back-end
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Good understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime.
• Good understanding of JS concepts on callbacks and closures.
• Good working exposure consuming web services (REST) and processing data (JSON)
• Experience with SQLite, NoSQL, Redis or other databases
• Experience in debugging issues related to memory leaks.
• Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with sub second response times
• Very strong knowledge in object-oriented concepts & design patterns
• Demonstrated willingness to develop with new/unfamiliar technologies.
• Well versed in troubleshooting issues and debugging the JavaScript code.
• Understanding of different design patterns
• Ability to integrate a variety of data sources and databases into a single system.
• Understands impacts of performance-based designs, accessibility standards and security compliance in development
• Proficiency when it comes to code versioning tools like GIT.
• Understanding of Unit Testing concepts and experience with Unit Testing tools like Jest.
• Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, etc.)
• Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas

Any Additional Information/Specifics

Customer Advocacy, Adaptability and Communication

• Strong communication with clear Technical vision, who can take a lead role in designing the system/architecture, ensuring first time quality of technical deliverables to the customers
• Be a customer advocate – Communicate proactively with customers to understand the requirements, to inform them the challenges, solutions and alternatives
• New horizons/ geographies, new ecosystems – should possess a commendable knowledge about the industry (if not – he/she should be able to acquire the required knowledge, and the customer needs quickly) to help/assist the team to set their directions properly

Solutioning, Integrations, and third-party liaising

• Propose technical solutions, act as customer advocate in discussions where brands/partners/third parties/other integrators involved
• Ability to validate Integration requirements (solutions based on SSO/Auth0/REST API etc) from multiple Integrators and assist in the Internal technical solutioning process
• Take ownership of technical requirements and validate the viability/feasibility in terms of its alignment with the product vision, Integration possibilities, and assist in detailing the requirements for the implementation.

Cross functional Teams – Technical Support

• Act as a SME for cross functional teams to sort out issues/problems that may arise, related to deployment activities, pipelines, branching, infrastructure decisions, security concerns/best practices, Implementation approaches, and standardisation of tools/technical processes within the project

Management Support

• Work with key members of the management team to formulate and drive technical strategy.

Product Support and Internal Support

• Help to Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software to ensure strong optimisation and functionality
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle and help the team to follow the technology best practices