Position: Lead Full-Stack Developer (Node + React)
Company: GT
Category: Node.js
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

On behalf of Kami GT is looking for an experienced Lead Full-stack Engineer (Node & React), who is enthusiastic about digital health and wellbeing.

**Kami is a British venture-baked startup**, whose mission is to provide people with personalized support along life’s critical journeys.

73% of parents don’t feel supported by their employer.
Kami wants to change that statistic and is already helping large organizations such as **JP Morgan and Meta (Facebook)** turn the tide.

Kami ensures employees receive the specialist coaching, emotional, and professional support needed on family planning and fertility through to pregnancy, parenting, and returning to work, and beyond. Kami empowers people to reduce burnout, improve work/life balance and reach their career goals.

To date **they’ve been backed by Google, Microsoft, Innovate UK, and Founders Factory,** who recognize the potential impact we can have on supporting the well-being of families and wider society. And they’re just getting started :)

**Social impact**
- Through their matched-subscriptions policy, they have also pledged to help tens of thousands of low-income families get the support they need.
- Kami contributes to good health & well-being, reduced inequalities, and improved gender equality via ESG.
- Kami is committed to closing the gender pay gap by enabling women to remain and thrive in their careers.

**About the Project**
They're a growing, dedicated team of experts in Machine Learning, NLP, Psychology, Coaching, and Family Support. **Their main product** - a digital platform, along with parenting consultants, delivers tailored support to their diverse user base spanning individuals, established families, and everyone in between.

This support platform for parents provides 24/7 access to a wide range of wellness & family experts via chat or video call. Currently, they have a no-code platform, which they are looking to move to a web application and potentially native platforms in the future.

**About the Role**
So, the **Lead Full-stack Developer **who will join Kami will have a chance to work on the **project from scratch**, having the ability to influence and own technical roadmap, working closely with founders and product leadership **to deliver a best-in-class employee wellbeing solution.**

You will join **as the only developer in the team** with the opportunity to lead and grow our nascent engineering team as we scale our offering to the next level.

**Responsibilities:**
🔹 Responsible for making key architecture decisions, making sure we implement best practices in integration and platform efficiencies that meet the user experience;
🔹 Delivering on the company’s product vision by spearheading the build of our web app which will integrate with our existing chatbot and emotion detection features;
🔹 Working closely with Product Management to provide clarity on time estimates, detailed development tasks, and general reports;
🔹 Achieving creative tech solutions using frameworks or code bases such as but not limited to React and NodeJS;
🔹 Supervising and mentoring junior software engineers;
🔹 Innovating and providing critical thinking and problem-solving ability;
🔹 Leading integration discussions with vendors, partners, or third-party providers to ensure all task and timeline-based requirements are met;
🔹 Development Testing;
🔹 Reporting to founders/C-suite.

**Essential knowledge, skills & experience:**
🔹 **6+ years of experience building software-based products;**
🔹 **4+ years of experience building with Node.js, React.js**, React Native;
🔹 Experience with a modern SQL-based database such as Postgres (preferred), MySQL, or MSSQL;
🔹 **Experience building in AWS (Amazon Web Services)** and understanding Amazon microservices (such as AWS Amplify);
🔹 Experience with database management;
🔹 Experience in Email, Notification server;
🔹 Has worked with video integration APIs (eg. Amazon Kinesis);
🔹 Experience in QA and end-to-end user testing;
🔹 Has worked with Agile platforms such as Jira, Trello, Base Camp, etc.
❗️ **Has experience managing engineers, and working closely with product managers and designers;**
❗️ **Upper-intermediate and above English knowledge.**

**Nice-to-have skills:**
- You have managed the build and deployment of high-level React Native Apps before.
- Experience building with Graph QL.
- Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD workflows.
- Experience building AI-based products.
- Experience building health/wellness solutions.
- Experience building data-heavy products.

**We go beyond usual perks… By working with us, you will get:**
✨ Health insurance;
✨ Lunches coverage;
✨ Psychotherapy assistance allowance;
✨ Gym allowance;
✨ Individual educational budget;
✨ Monthly commute allowance for those who visit the office in Kyiv/Krakow or free parking space in Unit.City (Kyiv, Ukraine);
✨ Best-in-class IT equipment mirroring our client set-up;
✨ 18 business days of paid vacations days per year and paid sick days;
✨ All public holidays are paid days off.

**Interview stages:**
1) Recruiter interview (up to 30 min).
2) Technical interview with live coding (1,5 hrs).
3) Culture fit interview (30-45 min).
4) Reference Check.
5) Client interview (30-45 min).

**Working model:**
**GT** builds remote engineering teams for outstanding product companies. Our future mate will work directly with **Kami**. We call this the **‘Extended Team model’**, and it means that each team member is integrated as deeply as possible into the client's team. You will work with the same tools and technologies as they do and communicate directly with a client **without any intermediary in between**.