Job Title: Tech Lead – Node.js & API
Location: Dallas, TX (onsite)
Local consultants only
Contract role
Exp: 10+ years
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead Node.js API Development:
- Design, implement, and optimize scalable RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express.js (or similar frameworks).
- Architect API systems for maximum scalability, resilience, and performance.
- Ensure that APIs are modular, reusable, and easy to maintain.
- Integrate with third-party services, databases, and other internal systems.
- Resilience Engineering:
- Apply principles of resilience engineering to design APIs that gracefully handle failures and continue to perform under stress.
- Implement retry logic, circuit breakers, and rate-limiting to ensure the APIs can withstand transient failures.
- Use techniques such as load balancing, failover mechanisms, and distributed architectures to improve fault tolerance.
- Monitoring & Observability:
- Set up and maintain real-time monitoring and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, or New Relic.
- Ensure comprehensive logging, tracing, and metrics collection (e.g., through OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or Zipkin) to provide visibility into system health.
- Proactively identify bottlenecks or performance issues and implement optimizations.
- Collaborate with the DevOps team to ensure system health and visibility across all environments.
- API Security:
- Implement security best practices for API development (e.g., OAuth2, JWT tokens, rate limiting, IP whitelisting, and API gateways).
- Regularly perform code reviews and audits to ensure security vulnerabilities are mitigated.
- Team Leadership & Collaboration:
- Lead and mentor a team of Node.js developers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and career development.
- Drive adoption of best practices in API development, monitoring, and resilience across the team.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including front-end developers, DevOps, and QA to deliver high-quality software.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives to ensure the team is aligned and focused on the right goals.
- Continuous Improvement:
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and frameworks that can improve development efficiency, monitoring capabilities, or resilience.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the development team.
- Ensure the team adopts DevOps practices and that software is fully automated for CI/CD pipelines.
Skills & Qualifications:
Essential:
- 5+ years of experience in Node.js development, with at least 2+ years of experience in a leadership role.
- Strong expertise in designing and building RESTful APIs using Node.js.
- Experience in building highly available, fault-tolerant systems that can handle production-level traffic.
- Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, New Relic).
- Experience with resilience patterns such as circuit breakers, retry logic, and rate limiting.
- Deep understanding of API security best practices (OAuth2, JWT, API Gateways, etc.).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and serverless architectures.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, etc.).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Desirable:
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and event-driven systems.
- Experience working with NoSQL and relational databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).
- Knowledge of automated testing and frameworks for Node.js (Mocha, Chai, Jest).
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Knowledge of distributed tracing and service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
Thanks & Regards,
Navneet Singh Talent Acquisition Specialist, Fast Hire INC |
