8NW Staff Lead Software Engineer

Software Mind is seeking qualified candidates to fill the role of Staff/Lead Software Engineer(React/TypeScript/Next.js).

In addition to a competitive salary rate and a positive work environment committed to delivering highquality technology solutions we also offer:

• Flexible schedules and authentic worklife balance
• Opportunities for continuing education
• Social activities per country sponsored by the company
• Birthday celebration
• Payment in US Dollars

About the role
Our client develops a financial platform to help people find the right credit cards mortgage rates and various other financial service products and information to enable them to make the best financial decisions for their unique needs.

We are looking for a Staff (Lead) Software Engineer with expertise in React TypeScript and Next.js to work on a team focused on credit card and bankrelated products and services. The focus of the work is frontend development but also includes some backend development tasks.

Main Responsibilities
Your work will include both handson development and Team Lead duties:

Handson development duties (60%)

• Write great code and be a team player who is willing to share your expertise and knowledge with others.
• Iterating and updating clientfacing web pages and flows that guide users toward the right companyrelated products to meet their needs.
• Perform data integrations within the decision process to improve customer experience.
• Contribute to the design and development of new applications features and flows to make the customer experience more intuitive and userfriendly.
• Support ongoing efforts to optimize the clients endtoend SDLC while maintaining best practices.
• Work throughout the full tech stack using React.js TypeScript Next.js Node.js GraphQL SQL REST API Context API and more.
• Support the adoption and migration of Next.js to increase speed and responsiveness
• Own and drive various projects and support senior engineers driving other projects
  
  Team Lead duties (40%):
• Work collaborative and help uplevel the team through mentorship code reviews knowledge sharing and pair programming as needed on complex development tasks
• Be a true owner in every sense of the word as it relates to your work responsibilities and commitment to the team and be an intrinsically motivated selfstarter
• Provide thought leadership/expertise around the right level of engineering for a given solution to help ensure projects are not overengineered
• Bring strong technical opinions to the table but hold them loosely being humble enough to let them go and move forward if group consensus goes in another direction
• Attend and contribute to architecture and design meetings and discussions
• Partner with the Engineering Manager to:
  Plan the roadmap & quarterly OKRS
  Breakdown product requirements into actionable user stories
  Bring a technical voice to planning & refinement meetings
  Maintain a high bar for engineering excellence
  Establish technical guard rails conventions and best practices
  Suggest process improvements and ideas to make the team better 

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Qualifications :

Job Skills/Requirements
90% English written and oral (at least B2 level) with excellent communication skills
810 years of overall development experience in a professional software engineer position
12 years of experience in a Tech Lead Team Lead or Staff Engineer role
Expertise in React advanced TypeScript Next.js (preferably Next.js version 13) and Node.js
Ability to mentor other engineers in TypeScript and share knowledge/best practices
Experience with Observability:
      Strong knowledge of observability tools like DataDog or similar
      Experience setting up dashboards monitors error reporting etc.
Experience with Web Performance
      Core web vitals caching Critical rendering path static generation
Experience working on largescale production applications
Ability to take business requests and break them down into manageable steps to achieve a goal 


Nice to have:
Handson experience with GraphQL
Knowledge and understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
Experience working on an organically driven website at a scale
Experience working with data analytics tools and understanding complex analytics schemas
Experience with CI/CD 

Additional Information :

Required Skills/Experience: 
810 years of overall development experience in a professional software engineer position
12 years of experience in a Tech Lead Team Lead or Staff Engineer role 
Expertise in React advanced TypeScript Next.js (preferably Next.js version 13) and Node.js
Ability to mentor other engineers in TypeScript and share knowledge/best practices 
Experience with Observability 
o Strong knowledge of observability tools like DataDog or similar 
o Experience setting up dashboards monitors error reporting etc.
Experience with Web Performance
o Core web vitals caching Critical rendering path static generation
Experience working on largescale production applications 

Critical Technology Proficiency

React TypeScript Next.js Node.js DataDog

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Fulltime