Lead Node Developer

Starcom Consultant; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Starcom Consultant is seeking an experienced senior software architect to design, build, and optimize scalable backend services and APIs. You will provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture decisions, code reviews, and mentoring while collaborating across product and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes building high-performance applications, distributed systems, and robust observability to support production systems.

Qualifications

• Requires 10+ years of software development experience.
• Strong Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript expertise.
• React experience and a record of building scalable, high-performance applications.
• Experience with APIs, distributed systems, SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with testing, TDD, CI/CD, Docker, and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize scalable backend services and APIs.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture decisions and code reviews.
• Mentee engineers, troubleshoot, and collaborate across product and engineering teams.

Skills

Node.js

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Distributed Systems

Backend Architecture

REST APIs

GraphQL

Microservices

SQL

NoSQL

CI/CD

Docker

Jenkins

Automated Testing

Technical Leadership

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

Job description

Design, build, and optimize scalable backend services, APIs, and React applications, while supporting distributed systems, databases, CI/CD pipelines, and production observability. Provide hands‑on technical leadership through architecture decisions, code reviews, mentoring, troubleshooting, and collaboration across product and engineering teams.

Requirements: Requires 10+ years of software development experience, strong Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript expertise, React experience, and a record of building scalable, high-performance applications. Candidates should also have experience with APIs, distributed systems, SQL and NoSQL databases, testing and TDD, CI/CD, Docker, and technical leadership.

Key Skills: Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Distributed Systems, Backend Architecture, REST APIs, GraphQL, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL, CI/CD, Docker, Jenkins, Automated Testing, Technical Leadership