Tech Lead JavaScript FullStack Developer

Important Information 

Location: Brazil
Job Mode: Full-time 
Work Mode: Work from home

Job Summary

As the Tech Lead for our JavaScript/TypeScript full‑stack team, you will guide technical direction, drive architectural decisions, and serve as a key technical counterpart to our client stakeholders. You’ll be a great contributor to the code quality and security aspects, while actively coaching engineers to deepen the team’s expertise in our core stack. You’ll be hands-on and equally strong in communication—facilitating technical discussions, translating business needs into technical plans, and ensuring we commit secure, scalable, and high‑quality solutions.

Responsibilities and Duties

• As a technical lead, be a reference when communicating with the team and stakeholders (including the client);
  
• Raise and discuss trade-offs of different design approaches elaborating detailed design documents;
  
• Development of new features;
  
• Maintenance of existing applications;
  
• Help define and document practices, methodologies and processes relevant to technical teams, improving Encora’s knowledge base;
  
• Implement solution from coding to testing to production deployment support;
  
• Mentor less experienced team members.

Essential Skills

• Broad experience with full stack development based in JavaScript;
  
• Experience with analysis, design, and implementation;
  
• Experience NextJS and NodeJS;
  
• Cloud knowledge (specially AWS Lambda, AWS CDK and serverless).

Highly Desirable Skills

• Knowledge about agile software development;
  
• Experience in driving Scrum rituals (Planning, Daily, Review and Retrospective).

About Encora

Encora is the preferred digital engineering and modernization partner of some of the world’s leading enterprises and digital native companies. With over 9,000 experts in 47+ offices and innovation labs worldwide, Encora’s technology practices include Product Engineering & Development, Cloud Services, Quality Engineering, DevSecOps, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience, Cybersecurity, and AI & LLM Engineering.

At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and qualifications, and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.