Lead Software Engineer

We have a 6 month contract to hire for a highly skilled Lead Application Development Engineer with 6–7 years of experience designing and implementing backend enterprise solutions using Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS. This person brings strong expertise in microservices, event-driven architecture (Kafka or AWS EventBridge), and API development with proven leadership in guiding development teams. The ideal candidate has experience deploying applications in AWS using Terraform or CloudFormation, ensures code quality through TDD and CI/CD pipelines, and demonstrates exceptional communication, problem-solving, and mentoring skills to drive scalable, secure solutions within an Agile environment. 100% Remote.

MUST HAVES:

Minimum 6-7 years of experience in software development or systems engineering.

• Prior experience in roles such as Senior Developer or Technical Lead.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Leadership and project management capabilities to inspire and guide a team.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Adaptability to stay current with tech trends and adjust to evolving project needs.

NICE TO HAVES: Healthcare experience

Disqualifiers: Missing technical requirements & soft skills, utilizing AI during interviews.

About this Role:

• Forming a new team “CMS Adobe Form”, to enhance the scalability of the AEM platform.
• This initiative aims to align with a unified technology strategy that supports evolving business needs.
• The Lead developer is responsible for technical leadership, project oversight, stakeholder communication, and hands-on development skills.
• This is for a Lead Developer-Backend Service Development.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop applications.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather functional and non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with application architect for architectural blueprints and supervise their execution.
• Conduct development research to set the team on the path to the successful project delivery.
• Ensure applications meet performance, scalability, and security standards.
• Conduct code and design reviews to ensure adherence to best practices.
• Integrate applications with existing systems and infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams.
• Monitor and manage application lifecycle, including upgrades and maintenance.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Metrics: deliver development assignments on agreed-upon time frame, keeping good communication and skills at the center, be engaged and provide inputs during planning.
• Potential to become long term opportunity.

Required Technical Skills:

Architecture & Design

• Experience designing and implementing data acquisition solution using 3-Tier architecture (Presentation, Application, Data).
• Experience of Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) principles and patterns.
• Experience with micro-services architecture and service orchestration.

Backend Development

• Experience in designing and documenting APIs using OpenAPI (Swagger or similar) specifications.
• Experience in Node.js and TypeScript for backend service development.
• Experience with scripting language such as python.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and optionally GraphQL.
• Experience with API Gateway, authentication/authorization (OAuth2, JWT).

Event Streaming & Messaging

• Experience with Kafka or AWS EventBridge / SNS / SQS.
• Experience designing and implementing event producers/consumers, topics, and message schemas.

Cloud & DevOps

• Experience deploying applications to AWS Cloud (Kubernetes, Lambda, EC2, S3, etc.).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Experience with DevOps tools (Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker containers).

Database & Storage

• Experience with NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Knowledge of data modeling, indexing, and performance tuning.

Testing & Quality

• Proficiency in unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks (e.g., Jest).
• Experience with test-driven development (TDD) and code quality tools (e.g., SonarQube).