Lead Developer - MUST RESIDE IN THE UNITED STATES - Remote

**Lead Developer - US Only - Remote

Compensation: $140,000 to $175,000 Annually**

Our client is looking for a focused, mission-driven Lead Developer to join their Research and Development team.

Position Responsibilities

• Leads cross-functional development to bring prototypes to life, providing constructive feedback to optimize implementation and usability
• Sets an example for team members of how to reliably deliver on commitments
• Embraces emerging standards while promoting best practices and communicating trade-offs
• Implements, maintains, and supports software integrations
• Provides solutions to technical problems of varying scope and complexity
• Collaborates with Product, Services, Sales, etc. to determine priorities and risks associated with projects
• Works with product stakeholders to understand business requirements and refine actionable technical tasks with the support of the team
• Ensures all relevant processes, procedures and product documentation is up to date
• Follows continuous integration/continuous development processes, peer review, coding style, and development conventions
• Actively participates in daily team standups, the LeSS agile process, peer code reviews, and occasional pair programming
• Collaborates with other developers on planning and working use cases, features, and tasks
• Mentors team members to help them grow in their careers while reinforcing our core values
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Required Experience, Skills and Knowledge
• 5+ years of deep NodeJS and Express experience with experience across the development stack
• 3+ years of TypeScript
• 3+ years experience with AWS serverless computing and technologies
• 3+ years of development experience with APIs, including data and authentication providers
• 3+ years of version control systems (bitbucket/git) with team knowledge of contribution strategies, testing practices, and CI/CD discipline
• Experience interacting with Restful APIs, GraphQL APIs and AWS services
• Demonstrated understanding of data storage, caching, and modeling practices
• Demonstrated understanding of design paradigms, software architecture, and design patterns
• Familiar with LeSS Methodology, or system decomposition and work task organization, as used in Agile methodology
• Experience with task tracking (e.g., JIRA, Github, or Trello)
• Ability to work independently or as part of a group effort, as required
• Solid problem-solving ability, planning mentality, and investigative mindset
• Skilled, inclusive team member & communicator
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Ability to travel occasionally
• Ability and interest to work remotely from a home office when not at a corporate office
• Ability to pass a pre-employment background and drug screen in accordance with applicable laws

** Preferred Experience, Skills and Knowledge**

• Experience with AWS CDK
• Experience with AWS Fargate, EKS, or similar
• Experience with developing Slack Apps with Bolt
• Experience with microservices
• Experience with Google Drive API
• Optimistic, improvement-minded and detail-oriented in organizational leadership
• Experience with PaaS/SaaS patterns utilizing a serverless approach
• Experience working in software startups Comfortable working in a dynamic environment driven by external demands Ability to work independently with little to no technical guidance Community-oriented/involvement in thought leadership demonstrates trade expertise