Description

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership and Architecture

• Serve as the lead developer and technical authority for assigned initiatives.
• Design resilient, cloud-native architectures and define technical roadmaps.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into clear, actionable technical plans.
• Define, document, and negotiate service and API contracts with partner teams.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise security, resiliency, and maintainability standards.
• Identify technical dependencies, risks, sequencing needs, and trade-offs.
• Promote security considerations throughout design and development.

Hands-On Engineering

• Build backend services using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Support applications written in Java when needed.
• Contribute to React-based UI development and integration.
• Review code and maintain engineering quality standards across frontend and backend repositories.
• Resolve complex technical issues across the application stack.

Collaboration and Delivery

• Partner with product teams and stakeholders to define scope and priorities.
• Help sequence initiatives based on technical readiness and risk.
• Guide decisions on team composition and required skills.
• Work within a cross-functional team supporting multiple initiatives, initially in sequence.
• Support a flexible staffing model as project needs evolve.
• Develop primarily internal-facing APIs, with some potentially external-facing UI components.

Required Technical Skills

• TypeScript: Expert-level proficiency across the software stack.
• Node.js and Backend Architecture: Strong experience designing and building APIs and services.
• React: Working experience supporting UI enhancements and integrations.
• AWS: Hands-on experience with Lambda, ECS, and S3.
• DynamoDB: Practical database experience.
• Authentication and Authorization: Strong understanding of JWT and OAuth.

Preferred Skills

• Support-level proficiency in Java and/or Angular.
• GraphQL experience, primarily as a consumer, with potential subgraph development.
• Experience with migrations between Java and TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience with additional SQL or NoSQL databases.
• Kong, Lambda Authorizers, and/or AWS Glue.
• Security and monitoring tools.
• GitHub Actions

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree