Technical Lead Microservices Nodejs

LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is the global leader in enterprise conversations. Hundreds of the worlds leading brands including HSBC Chipotle and Virgin Media use our awardwinning Conversational Cloud platform to connect with millions of consumers. We power nearly a billion conversational interactions every month providing a uniquely rich data set and safety tools to unlock the power of Conversational AI for better customer experiences.

At LivePerson we foster an inclusive workplace culture that encourages meaningful connection collaboration and innovation. Everyone is invited to ask questions actively seek new ways to achieve success nd reach their full potential. We are continually looking for ways to improve our products and make things better. This means spotting opportunities solving ambiguities and seeking effective solutions to the problems our customers care about.

Overview:

LivePerson Voice is a stateoftheart borninthecloud SaaS offering. Our Cloud platform is a multitenanted solution hosted on GCP using a modern technology stack. Most of our cloud software is deployed as microservices written in Node.JS on top of a NoSQL DB stack (MongoDB Firebase ElasticSearch). Our telephony connector layer is a mixture of ASP/.Net and Java code.

The customer facing app is written in TypeScript using the modern Angular framework. It is deployed in several different contexts including as a Chrome extension Electron desktop applications for both Windows and Mac and embedded in a number of CRMs (including Salesforce) in an iFrame.

Responsibilities:

• Lead scrum teams of software development engineers and perform handson development work
• Design and develop highvolume lowlatency enterprise scale applications for missioncritical systems and delivering highavailability and performance
• Manage the projects by running daily scrum perform the task assignment tracking impediment removal and enforcing the definition of done.
• Own the feature timelines by working closely with developers and deliver as committed to the stakeholders.
• Take the responsibility for creating and consolidating project timelines with risks and communicating overall program health in a periodic manner
• Coordinate product deployments and releases management cycles working with the field CSMs account teams and brands in all 3 regions (EMEA NA and APAC)
• Track service levels (SLA) and schedule adherence and ensure the individual teams meet and exceed their performance targets.
• Work together with cross regional teams in the US and Europe to coordinate and deliver engineering products.

Requirements:

• 6 years of industry experience building successful large scale production software systems
• At least 2 years of experience as Scrum master/Project manager owning end to end delivery of software products by defining projects collecting requirements writing detailed functional specifications coordinating efforts to scope schedule and deploy new features sets
• Experience in development of Microservices RESTful API backend systems
• Experience writing code with TypeScript Javascript Node.js or equivalent frameworks.
• Experience building applications using NoSQL databases like MongoDB.
• Code repository and deployment pipelines GIT Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong communication writing and organizational skills
• Graduate degree in Computer Science Statistics or another quantitative field.

You should be an expert in:

• Agile methodologies like Scrum and General project management MUST
• Backend Web Frameworks NodeJS 5 years) MUST
• Experience building interactive UI with Angular/Vue MUST
• Experience with Git MUST
• Experience with Kubernetes MUST
• Experience in AWS/GCP or an equivalent cloud solution MUST

Minimum Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Certified Scrum Master or PMP Preferred

Benefits:

• Health: Medical Dental and Vision
• Time away: Vacation and holidays
• Equal opportunity employer

Why Youll Love Working Here
As leaders in enterprise customer conversations we celebrate diversity empowering our team to forge impactful conversations globally. LivePerson is a place where uniqueness is embraced growth is constant and everyone is empowered to create their own success. And were very proud to have earned recognition from Fast Company Newsweek and BuiltIn for being a top innovative beloved and remotefriendly workplace.

Belonging At LivePerson
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local law.

We are committed to the accessibility needs of applicants and employees. We provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should inform their recruiting contact upon initial connection.

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