About the Role
As a Backend Staff/Lead Engineer, you will drive the technical standards for the Backend across our consumer domain, working with multiple squads inside the domain. You will lead Backend engineers in tech roadmaps, architecture decisions, and feature development and release cycles. Your role will involve mentoring junior developers and contributing to scaling up Backend engineers in multiple squads by conducting technical interviews.
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Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain features for the domain applications
- Provide technical leadership and manage dependencies
- Conduct design and code reviews
- Help domain team members overcome technical blockers and support their growth
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize efficiency
- Participate in architecture and design discussions
- Build the technical roadmap
- Conduct technical interviews
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Perform feasibility studies to validate capability and functionality
- Research and assess current technologies
- Develop and execute complex, multi-tier distributed software applications
- Create technical and domain expertise and apply it to products and problems
- Assess and write code to improve or extend applications
- Manage and assist current software applications
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience in backend engineering with Node.js
- Strong foundation in programming fundamentals
- Excellent communication skills
- Enjoy solving problems and helping others achieve their goals
- Substantial experience with Git in a team environment
- Experience writing testable code and unit tests
- Experience in a fast-growing startup in the on-demand services space is a plus
- Deep knowledge of React and Node.js, with experience developing products using them
- Experience using modern JavaScript and tooling in a full-stack setting
- Extensive experience with A/B experiments and a data-driven attitude towards product development
At Yassir, we believe in the power of diversity and the importance of an inclusive culture. If you're ready to bring your unique perspective and experiences to the table, we're excited to listen. Let's create a better tomorrow together. We look forward to receiving your application!
