Position: Tech Lead (Java/JS) Engineer
Company: LaSoft
Experience required: 5y
Category: JavaScript
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

As a Tech Lead, you will contribute to multiple high-visibility projects, including direct influence over the product, manage the development team, and direct the architecture vision. In collaboration with co-founders, you will have significant autonomy to define technical specifications.

Who we are looking for: 
We aim to hire a talented software engineer with extensive hands-on experience in developing, delivering, and supporting web applications. This team member will act as a partner to the Product Manager by providing feedback on technical requirements, detailing user stories into atomic development tasks, and providing support and guidance to other members of the engineering team implementing these tasks. The team lead will be the point person for diagnosing the root cause of bugs identified by QA and for proposing solutions. 

This role has two primary responsibilities: 
Hands-on engineer. 
Provide technical leadership across different projects to promote consistent coding standards and quality. 

You do not need to be an expert in the entire stack, but you will need to possess the following:
Solid computer science background
Technical leadership experience 
Extensive experience in backend development, preferably Java
Experience with building and architecting microservices 
A solid overview of front-end technologies, including but not limited to React and Node
Experience with DevOps processes and CI/CD pipelines 
Understanding of SaaS product architectures, AWS/Google Cloud Stack, and networking
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related field.
Understanding of DevSecOps and building secure SaaS applications 
Bonus: Experience with the application, network, and cybersecurity and compliance frameworks (NIST, HIPAA, ISO27001)

About the client:
The client is a hybrid company - the insurance company and cybersecurity provider. It offers cybersecurity assessments to small businesses. Based on that assessment, the firm provides an insurance policy (if the risk is in a good shape). 

The company was established in 2018. It has secured funding and is looking for top talent to scale its platform fast. The architecture involved multiple third parties and modules that feed the data lake that spits out the information via our client's interface. The project has elements of Big Data, Insurance, Data Security, and Cyber Security.