Technical Team Lead, NodeJS - Andela

A day in the life of a team Software Engineer: Our team is distributed worldwide which means we work asynchronously most of the time.

Your typical week would include:

• Collaborating with design, analytics, support, and product management to understand the problems we want to solve and exploring how we can solve them;
• Discussing and collaboratively solving engineering and product problems with engineering collaborators in Slack or Zoom;
• Opening a Pull Request to implement the next most important feature or fix the most critical bug;
• Trying to reproduce a reported bug and responding to issues we’ve received from the community;
• Reviewing your teammates' Pull Requests and providing helpful feedback;
• Working with your engineering manager in your one-on-one meetings to grow your team and career; and
• Communicating with users to discover what they love and what their pain points are.

Responsibilities: 

• Design, scope, and implement technical solutions that scale across multiple web applications;
• Collaboratively define and prioritize projects and tasks;
• Drive thoughtful conversations around technical issues and opportunities;

• Review code and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback for your team and the community;
• Triage, reproduce, and debug technical support requests, bugs, and feature requests reported by users in our Issues on our website; and
• Provide compassionate technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.

Qualifications:

• Strong written communication skills;
• High degree of empathy;
• 6+ years experience as a full-time professional coder using Node.JS;
• Experience team leading/management;
• Experience working asynchronously on a remote, distributed team (does not have to be professional experience);
• Ability to draw on both system design and software engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs; and
• Experience building highly available services at scale.

What You’ll Get*

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field
• A chance to change the world for the better.
• Working from home (remotely)