Tech Lead (Full Stack OR Back End Experience)

Crimson Interactive Pvt. Ltd; Mumbai Suburban; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading editorial services company in Mumbai is seeking a Tech Lead to lead a team of web developers. Responsibilities include overseeing project delivery, hiring, training, and implementing best practices in code quality and AWS management. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in web development and strong leadership qualities. This role offers a unique opportunity to innovate in a user-centric environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of web-dev and software architecture experience.
• Proven 3+ years of Tech Lead or Senior Software Engineer experience.
• Strong experience working with AWS technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of web developers and oversee delivery.
• Assist in hiring and training the tech team.
• Design and conduct high-quality code-review processes.

Skills

Excellent research skills

Unit and integration testing experience

Code-review process

Designing optimized scalable solutions

Breaking down complex problems

Estimating project efforts

AWS technologies

Tools

Docker

Node.js

Relational Databases

Document Databases

Front-end JS frameworks

Job description

Role overview

As a Tech Lead you will actively lead a team of young talented web developers and oversee end-to-end delivery along with the Technical Project Manager (TPM). You will assist the TPM with hiring and training the team.

The person we are looking for

We are seeking a Tech Lead at RAX (https://raxter.io) with 4+ years of enterprise web-dev and software architecture experience. We are looking for:

1. Excellent research skills to frame technical solutions for complex business problems.


2. You have experience with unit and integration testing. You believe in and encourage extensive test coverage and seek to automate testing whenever possible.


3. You will be responsible for designing and conducting high-quality code-review process and maintain highly performant, testable code with following strong software design patterns.


4. You show remarkable foresight in designing optimized scalable solutions.


5. You enjoy breaking down complex problems into small tasks and PRs to deliver value safely and incrementally.


6. You will be actively reviewing approaches created by the tech team and help them to find the optimal solutions to the problems.


7. You take pride in estimating project efforts with reasonable accuracy and ensure healthy communication up to and down the chain of command.


8. You will work with the TPM and other senior developers to optimize, update, and maintain cloud infrastructure and associated cost (AWS).


9. You are very well acquainted with best practices around project deployment and educate the team about the same.


10. You will be helping the TPM in evaluating the tech team performance (KPI).


11. You will be helping the TPM in hiring process making sure that we have a great tech team that has: (a) a high level of curiosity, (b) resourcefulness, (c) solid expertise level, (d) high attention-to-details, (e) superb commitment and reliability, and (f) obsession for amazing user experience.

Experience

1. You have proven 3+ years of Tech Lead or Senior Software Engineer (full-stack or backend) experience working with backend technologies including relational (Postgres/MySQL) and document (MongoDB) databases, Docker & Orchestration, CI/CD, Node.js.


2. You have strong experience working with AWS technologies like Lambda functions, SQS, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB etc.


3. You have good understanding of HTML, CSS, CSS processors, CSS framework.


4. You have extensive experience of front-end JS framework (eg. Vue.js / React.js)


5. You are well aware of best practices around developer tooling and workflows.


6. You consider testing, monitoring, and observability first-order priorities.


7. You are energized by working in a highly collaborative environment at a user experience-obsessed startup. You see software engineering as a team sport and like collaborating with fellow engineers, product managers, and others to deliver customer value.


8. Added advantage: Elasticsearch server cluster optimization; Apache Spark; Redis/memcache; Kafka/RabbitMQ

About RAX

RAx (https://raxter.io) is the first smart workspace that helps researchers (students, professors, corporate researchers) to be better and faster in their research projects. Powered with proprietary AI algorithms and a unique approach to solving problems with design and tech, RAx is set to be the default workspace for any research-heavy projects. Launched in 2019, the product connects information (Research papers, Blogs, Wiki, Books, Courses, Videos, etc.) to behaviors (reading, writing, annotating, discussing & more), opening up newer insights and opportunities in academic space that was otherwise not possible (or not imaginable).

About the team

We are a small group of passionate researchers, engineers, and designers who came together to build a product that can revolutionize the way any research-intensive projects are done. Reducing cognitive load and helping people to convert information into knowledge, is at the core of our mission. Our engineering team is building a scalable platform that deals with tons of data, AI processing over the data, and interactions of users from across the globe.

About the Company

Crimson Interactive Pvt. Ltd. provides Editorial Services to individual clients and corporate customers worldwide. We have over 40,000+ clients spanning more than 89 countries. Under the brands Enago, Voxtab, and Ulatus, Crimson works with a pool of highly skilled freelance professionals and a dynamic and constantly growing in-house team. We provide specialized services to researchers, journals, and information specialists from various fields including medicine, biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and humanities.