Node JS Tech Lead

Job Summary:

• A client of ours in WoodlandHills CA is looking for a Node JS Tech Lead for a Contract opportunity.

• looking for a highly energetic and collaborative Full Stack tech lead to build end to end business solutions and to work with one of the leading healthcare providers in the US.
• The ideal candidate must possess strong background on frontend and backend development technologies.
• The lead will be responsible for participating in all phases of the development and maintenance life cycle in the Digital Technologies organization for a leading healthcare provider in the United States.
• The candidate should be a proven self-starter with demonstrated ability to make decisions and accept responsibility and risk. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with domain experts and IT leadership team is key to be successful in this role.

• Own the technical delivery of application features.
• Develop and refine the technical architecture used by development teams.
• Develop and maintain complex components of information systems.
• Create and perform unit tests, as well as resolve and retest any defects identified.
• Develop and perform system testing and fix defects identified during testing and re-execute unit tests to validate results. Coach and mentor team members on development best practices.
• Define and enforce application coding standards and best practices.
• Identify and resolve technical and process impediments preventing delivery teams from meeting delivery commitments. Align and collaborate with architects, other team leads, and IT leadership to develop technical architectural runways supporting upcoming features and capabilities.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot performance and other issues.
• Collaborate with peers, reviewing complex change and enhancement requests.
• Evaluate potential changes and enhancements for objectives, scope and impact.
• Take a proactive approach to development work, leading peers and partners to strategic technical solutions in a complex IT environment.
• Document functional/technical requirements and design based on requirements or objectives.
• Mentor peers on coding standards, patterns and strategy.
• Build and maintain active relationships with customers to determine business requirements.
• Partner with other IT teams during integration activities to facilitate successful implementations.
• Participate in on-call application support and respond to application issues when identified.
• Communicate effectively with technical peers in in a clear manner, while also being able to articulate complex solutions in ways nontechnical business partners can understand.

• BA/BS degree or technical institute training or equivalent work experience
• 9+ years experience as a full stack software engineer developing solutions for systems at scale.
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing front-end solutions on multiple platforms at scale.
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing microservices for highly scalable systems.
• Strong knowledge of concurrency and asynchronous multi-threading.
• Working knowledge of React, Nodejs, Javascript/TypeScript, and Java with ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly.
• Experience developing and integrating with third party APIs.
• Believe strongly in testing everything you design and develop using automation.
• RESTful API, Spring boot
• Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases and their trade-offs. Strong experience with Agile software engineering methodologies and practices.
• Strong leadership skills to help guide engineers in technical decisions in design, implementation, and risk analysis.
• Ability to coordinate feature development across multiple teams to align road maps to deliver critical features.
• Strong understanding of Functional Programming Concepts Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Spark .
• Strong hands-on experience with at least one SQL and one NoSQL variant, i.e. Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra.
• Experience in designing and deploying systems to AWS. Containerization with tools such as Docker
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Git
• Atlassian products BitBucket, JIRA, Confluence etc.
• Continuous Integration tools such as Bamboo, Jenkins, or TFS

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 10+ years of Node JS Tech Lead Experience.
• Education: Bachelors (required)