[Hiring] Lead Engineer @Silver.dev

Role Description

As a Engineering Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the backend architecture and ensuring the success of our technical initiatives. Your leadership will be critical in driving innovation, performance, and reliability for our backend services.

• Act as the Engineering lead within a squad, guiding the team on architectural decisions, best practices, and technical execution.
• Collaborate closely with frontend technical leads, ensuring smooth integration between backend and frontend services.
• Lead the technical strategy for backend development, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Own the architecture and design of backend services, establishing best practices and guiding the team on complex technical decisions.
• Develop and maintain robust, high-performance backend services using Node.js and NestJS (Express).
• Drive technical innovation by researching and implementing new technologies, tools, and methodologies to enhance development processes.
• Ensure system reliability and performance through well-structured testing, monitoring, and logging strategies.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to align technical solutions with business goals.
• Mentor and coach backend developers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
• Establish and enforce coding standards and best practices for backend development.
• Oversee deployments and production operations, ensuring high availability and fast issue resolution.
• Participate in hiring processes, helping to attract and assess top engineering talent.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend development, with at least 2 years in a leadership or technical lead role.
• Strong expertise in Node.js and NestJS (Express) for building scalable backend applications.
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design, security, and performance optimization.
• Advanced knowledge of relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including database modeling, performance tuning, and query optimization.
• Experience implementing unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks.
• Expertise in architectural patterns such as microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms (preferably GCP), and infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
• Strong leadership skills, with a proven ability to mentor and develop engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams and squads.
• Problem-solving mindset, analytical thinking, and ability to navigate complex technical challenges.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment with autonomy and ownership.
• Spanish and English proficiency.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with messaging and event-driven architectures (RabbitMQ, Kafka, PubSub).
• Exposure to serverless computing and cloud-native development patterns.

Interview Process

• Silver screening Interview.
• Silver Technical Interview (System Design Interview).
• Client Screening Interview.
• Client Technical interview.
• Client Behavioral Interview.