Backend Dev Lead

The Backend Dev Lead will have the opportunity to work directly with our lead developer/co-founder, building many new features and architecting new back-end tools and conventions for other engineers to use.

Responsibilities:

• You should spend 80% of your time shipping a lot of back-end code, owning, building, and releasing a lot of new features and feature updates. Do this quickly, with high quality, and by the due date of an aggressive product roadmap (e.g., 90% + released on time). 
• Ensure code meets Applause’s high engineering standards, and that it still works with 10x more usage.
• Working closely with the product team you will lead out and own the design and architecture of new features/sub-systems on a per project basis.
• You will take ownership of the development side of a release from start to finish. This includes presenting and proposing multiple solutions for a given problem, determining the optimal solution based on requirements and constraints, delegating tasks to other developers on the project, assisting other developers during feature development, and building out and delivering on your own code tasks.

Requirements

• 7-12 years experience as a back-end engineer
• 3-5 years experience serving in a dev lead or similar role
• 5-10 years experience w/ Node as your primary environment
• Aptitude and willingness to quickly learn established conventions
• Very high standards with code quality
• Passionate about programming with a strong history of shipping a lot of features in a short timeline
• Very effective in a remote-work environment