Sr Lead Node.js & React Full Stack Engineer

Role Overview:
Client company was founded in 2015 by online meeting and customer support veterans to build a new generation of cloud-based, enterprise tools for customer support and IT help desk for industry-leading, globally recognized brands. For enterprises seeking to deliver exceptional person-to-person customer support experiences, ScreenMeet provides purpose-built support software that integrates with CRM and ITSM platforms made with the latest cloud technologies.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Hands on software development
• Develop and maintain robust, scalable applications, APIs and microservices
• Ensure code quality and maintainability with unit and integration testing, type safety, documentation, and software design principles
• Optimize applications and systems for high performance, reliability, and scalability
• Troubleshoot, debug and resolve complex production issues and provide timely resolution
• Keep up to date on latest nodejs / typescript tooling and best practices

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Help lead fellow developers by example, promoting a culture of technical excellence
• Conduct thorough code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
• Mentor junior software engineers, fostering continuous learning and improvement
• Drive continuous improvement of development processes
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into Agile Epics, Stories and Defects
• Collaborate with DevOps to enable CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation
• Collaborate with QA and DevOps to ensure robust, testable, and observable systems

Innovation

• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for their adoption where appropriate
• Be a “Lifelong Learner” by demonstrating self-motivated pursuit of knowledge and skills

Requirements:
- 10+ years of professional experience in software development
- 5-8+ years of experience in backend development with Node.js, Express and Typescript, with a proven track record of building secure and scalable systems
- Expert-level knowledge of Node.js and Express
- Expert-level knowledge of JavaScript/Typescript, including modern features (ES6 and beyond), asynchronous programming (callbacks, Promises, async/await), and error handling
- Strong understanding of JavaScript packaging and module bundling, including using npm (Node Package Manager) for managing dependencies
- Strong understanding of API Development, including RESTful APIs, WebSocket based APIs, SSO, Identity Providers and related authentication and authorization technologies such as SAML, OIDC and OAuth
- Strong understanding of design patterns providing optimal solutions to common Node.js development problems (DI, Middleware, Factory, Singleton)
- Strong understanding of building secure web sites and services following OWASP’s top 10 and other best practices
- BA/BS in a computer-science-related discipline or equivalent experience

Ideal candidates have some experience with:
- Using AI based developer tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot)
- Monorepo version control strategies using nx or similar technologies
- Developing front ends in React or similar TypeScript/JavaScript technologies
- WebRTC or other real-time communication standards
- LLM API’s, prompt engineering, and prompt management
- CRM integration/development (Salesforce/ServiceNow)
- AWS or similar cloud infrastructure
- Containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes
- Object oriented programming in a strongly typed language (Java, C#,C++,Go)

Logistics:
100% Remote

About the Company:
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