Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and architecture of scalable backend services using NestJS and/or Python FastAPI, ensuring best practices in API design, database integration, and system modularity.
- Oversee development and maintenance of frontend applications in React and React Native, ensuring consistency in architecture and design patterns across web and mobile platforms.
- Guide implementation of communication protocols (e.g., MQTT, HTTP, BLE) for seamless device and microservice interactions.
- Own system integration across the stack — from embedded firmware and gateways to backend microservices and cloud infrastructure.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software engineers; conduct code reviews and enforce engineering quality standards.
- Drive the development and optimization of CI/CD pipelines; ensure automated testing, deployment, and rollback strategies are robust and reliable.
- Collaborate closely with other engineers on technical roadmaps, architecture decisions, and resource planning.
- Ensure cloud and on-premise infrastructure is scalable, secure, and cost-efficient; oversee monitoring and incident response practices.
- Champion TDD or testing best practices; ensure teams write thorough unit and integration tests.
- Maintain comprehensive technical documentation and encourage good documentation practices across the team.
- Lead maintenance, troubleshooting and performance optimization efforts across existing backend services and databases.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of software development experience, with at least 2+ years in engineering leadership roles (team lead, manager, or head of software)
- Strong background in both backend and frontend development.
- Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers in an Agile / Scrum team.
- Expert proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and Python.
- Strong experience architecting solutions with NestJS and/or FastAPI, including SQL and NoSQL database design.
- Deep understanding of React and React Native application architecture.
- Experience designing and documenting APIs via Swagger / OpenAPI.
- Solid understanding of communication protocols such as MQTT, HTTP, BLE, or similar.
- Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and system integration patterns.
- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines, preferably using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
- Hands-on experience deploying and scaling applications on cloud platforms and on-premise.
- Excellent problem-solving, architectural thinking, and debugging skills.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across departments.
- Passion for building maintainable, high-quality systems and mentoring others to do the same.