Position: Team Lead Node.js Developer
Company: Forte Group
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Great software doesn't happen on its own. It takes great people. That just happens to be our forte.

With nearly 20 years of matching top engineering talent with preeminent and innovative brands, we look for people who are inquisitive, resourceful, and dedicated to their craft and driven to help companies build great software. If this sounds like you, read on.

Our client’s product is the world’s first federated genomics platform for unified, secure research over distributed big data. No one has anything close. Think best-in-class UI/UX, seamless integration with open-source tools, powerful cohort browser, advanced AI, etc.

Client’s engineering and research team is composed of a mix of software, and bioinformatics, engineers split between Lisbon and London. Software engineers don’t need any prior knowledge or experience in bioinformatics. The team in Lisbon (currently 3 engineers) usually visits London for 1 week every 2-3 months.

The different teams’ stack includes:
Backend: NodeJS, TypeScript, MongoDB
Infrastructure: Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
Frontend: React-Redux
Machine Learning: Python, Pandas, Sklearn, Tensorflow
Bioinformatics: Nextflow, Conda, Python, R, Bash, Docker, Singularity

As a Node.js Team Lead you will:
•	Manage a team of 3 engineers
•	Take a leading role in defining software engineering processes and ways of working, not just coding
•	Design and lead backend architecture implementation
•	Contribute to features across the entire life cycle, from inception to deployment in production
•	Navigate in new code and make sense through what you find
•	Pick up new technologies and frameworks that suit the needs of products and users
•	Demonstrate an interest in working with best practices and principles while contributing to them, in order to keep high quality standards and keep hell far away
•	Work towards production deployment rapidly, be able to scale and to be monitored easily
•	Enable feature improvements and delivery to be updated daily

Requirements
The role requirements below are just an indication of what we’re looking for - sometimes the perfect candidate is far more or less experienced than we anticipated. You should have a good understanding of best practices of web development and be able to apply them in web development (ES6, JS). Specifically, you have:
•	NodeJS experience
•	API design and implementation experience
•	Understanding of interactions and communication between services at scale (sockets, polling, monitoring)
•	Familiarity with TDD
•	Experience with NoSQL databases
•	Used communication services with message brokers (RabbitMq, Kafka, etc)
•	Experience with services ingesting high volume of transactions and analytics
•	A mindset ready to firefight against issues in realtime
•	Experience with Docker, AWS, GCP and ops over cloud (nice to have)
•	Fluency in English