We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead with a strong backend engineering focus to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems.
The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, Express.js, Microservices, Kafka, MongoDB, Redis, Cloud, Docker, and Kubernetes, with strong experience building and operating high-scale backend platforms in production environments.
The role also requires hands-on frontend development experience, particularly with ReactJS, with Angular experience being relevant for full-stack delivery. As a Technical Lead, you will provide technical direction to a cross-functional engineering team while remaining hands-on with architecture, development, code quality, performance, and delivery.
You will work closely with Product Owners, Architects, DevOps teams, and other engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable platforms supporting digital products and everyday banking capabilities.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and operation of large-scale, cloud-native backend platforms.
- Design and develop scalable backend services using Node.js, TypeScript, and Express.js.
- Architect and implement microservices-based distributed systems.
- Design and implement event-driven architectures using Kafka for asynchronous processing and service-to-service integration.
- Design scalable data models and optimize MongoDB databases, including indexing, aggregation pipelines, and performance tuning.
- Implement Redis for caching, distributed locking, session management, and performance optimization.
- Develop and maintain frontend applications using ReactJS while maintaining a strong backend engineering focus.
- Work with Angular where required as part of full-stack application development.
- Design and develop secure, scalable, and well-documented APIs.
- Implement appropriate authentication and authorization mechanisms and follow secure API design practices.
- Build highly available and resilient systems capable of supporting mission-critical production workloads.
- Drive application performance optimization, scalability, reliability, and observability.
- Design and operate cloud-native solutions across Azure, AWS, or GCP, with Azure preferred.
- Containerize applications using Docker and orchestrate workloads using Kubernetes.
- Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices.
- Participate in architecture and technical design discussions and drive appropriate technical decisions.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards, coding practices, and code quality across the squad.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure maintainable, secure, and production-ready code.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive root-cause analysis and resolution.
- Plan technical delivery, estimate work, manage dependencies, and support successful sprint execution.
- Mentor and guide engineers on architecture, development practices, debugging, performance optimization, and engineering standards.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, DevOps, QA, and other engineering teams to ensure successful delivery.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps, platform improvements, and continuous engineering optimization.
Core Technical Requirements
Backend
- Strong hands-on expertise in Node.js
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript
- Strong experience with Express.js
- Extensive experience building enterprise-grade backend services
- Strong understanding of asynchronous and non-blocking programming
Architecture & Distributed Systems
- Strong experience with Microservices Architecture
- Deep understanding of distributed system design
- Experience designing scalable, highly available, and resilient systems
- Strong understanding of service integration and asynchronous processing
- Experience with event-driven architectures
Kafka
- Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka
- Experience designing event-driven systems using Kafka
- Understanding of asynchronous processing and service integration
- Experience handling high-volume distributed workloads
MongoDB
- Strong hands-on experience with MongoDB
- Data modeling
- Indexing strategies
- Aggregation pipelines
- Query optimization
- Performance tuning
Redis
- Strong experience with Redis
- Caching strategies
- Distributed locking
- Session management
- Performance optimization
Frontend
- Strong hands-on experience with ReactJS
- Experience building scalable and maintainable frontend applications
- Understanding of modern React architecture and application development
- Angular experience is also relevant, particularly for full-stack delivery
Cloud & DevOps
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms:
- Strong experience with Docker
- Strong experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Infrastructure automation
- DevOps practices
- Cloud-native application architecture
API & Security
- Strong experience in API design and development
- RESTful API development
- API security
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Secure coding practices
- API performance and scalability
- Observability and monitoring
Technical Leadership Responsibilities
- Own technical direction and solution architecture for assigned platforms.
- Drive technical design decisions and architecture discussions.
- Define and maintain engineering standards and best practices.
- Ensure code quality through reviews, standards, and development practices.
- Mentor and guide engineers across the squad.
- Support technical estimation, delivery planning, and prioritization.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, scalability concerns, and performance bottlenecks.
- Work with senior technical and business stakeholders to communicate technical solutions and delivery considerations.
Required Skills & Competencies
- Strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to design and troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively within cross-functional engineering teams.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
- Strong ownership of technical delivery and production outcomes.
- Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical decisions.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, enterprise-scale technology environments.
Preferred Experience
- Experience in banking, financial services, payments, or digital banking environments.
- Experience building platforms supporting digital products and everyday banking capabilities.
- Experience working with enterprise-scale distributed systems.
- Strong exposure to cloud-native architecture.
- Experience operating mission-critical applications in production.
- Azure experience is preferred, with AWS or GCP also acceptable.
- Experience with both ReactJS and Angular is an advantage.