UI Lead Developer

Signature IT World Inc; North Carolina; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Signature IT World Inc. seeks an experienced Senior Software Architect to lead the design and delivery of scalable web applications and services. You will define API design, versioning, authentication, and documentation standards, and drive cloud-based solutions on AWS.

The role requires leadership in DevOps, IaC with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and a focus on reliability, performance, and observability. Collaboration with product, QA, and stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
• Proficiency in Python for tooling and scripting.
• Strong background in RESTful APIs and microservices design.
• Experience documenting APIs and building scalable services.
• Hands-on with Terraform and IaC for cloud environments.
• Proven ability to implement CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with observability, logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Experience with testing frameworks and unit tests.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and code reviews.
• Strong problem-solving and architectural decision-making abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and delivery of scalable web apps and software solutions.
• Design and implement REST APIs and microservices per standards.
• Define API design, versioning, auth, and docs standards.
• Design and integrate cloud-based solutions using AWS services.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor developers on standards.
• Implement automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply Terraform and IaC for cloud infrastructure.
• Manage source code with Git workflows and DevOps practices.
• Drive reliability engineering, performance optimization, and scalability.
• Implement application observability including logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Develop shell scripts to automate dev, deployment, and ops tasks.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across apps, APIs, cloud, and production.
• Collaborate with product, QA, DevOps, and stakeholders.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure security standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, automation, and productivity.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

REST APIs

Microservices

API Documentation

Unit Testing

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

DevOps

Software Architecture

Reliability Engineering

Performance Optimization

Observability

Logging, Metrics & Tracing

Shell Scripting

Git-based Workflows

Strong Problem-Solving Skills

Tools

Git

Job description

The candidate should have strong experience in software architecture, API design, cloud services, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, testing, reliability engineering, performance optimization, and application observability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable web applications and software solutions.
• Design and implement REST APIs and microservices following enterprise architecture standards.
• Define API design, versioning, authentication, authorization, and documentation standards.
• Design and integrate cloud-based solutions using AWS services.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor developers on coding standards, architecture, and best practices.
• Implement automated testing using Jest, Mocha, Chai, and unit testing frameworks.
• Design and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and deployment.
• Implement Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for cloud infrastructure.
• Manage source code using Git and Git-based development workflows.
• Drive DevOps practices across application development and deployment.
• Apply software architecture principles to build scalable, maintainable, and reliable applications.
• Lead efforts around reliability engineering, performance optimization, and scalability.
• Implement application observability, including logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Develop shell scripts to automate development, deployment, and operational activities.
• Troubleshoot complex application, API, cloud, and production issues.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to engineering and security standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve application performance, reliability, automation, and developer productivity.

Required Skills

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Python
• REST APIs
• Microservices
• API Documentation
• Unit Testing
• Terraform
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• DevOps
• Software Architecture
• Reliability Engineering
• Performance Optimization
• Observability
• Logging, Metrics & Tracing
• Shell Scripting
• Git-based Workflows
• Strong Problem-Solving Skills

Leadership Requirements

• Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills
• Experience leading development teams and complex projects
• Ability to make architectural and technical decisions
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues
• Experience working in Agile/DevOps environments