Job Description

We are looking for a talented and passionate lead engineer who has the desire to guide development and maintenance for a subset of ABG backend web services. These services support our mobile and web e-commerce products - the primary driver of $9B in annual revenue. This role requires a resourceful individual, a persistent problem solver, and a strong hands-on engineer. This is a great opportunity to have a big impact as part of a growing team who is during technology and product transformation.

Responsibilities:

• Build a deep understanding of existing systems.
• Participate in or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders.
• Write code as needed, but also strategically/thoughtfully delegate coding tasks to team members.
• Review code developed by other developers, providing feedback on style, functional correctness, testability, and efficiency.
• Triage system-wide issues and identify the root cause of incidents.
• Work with Principal Architects to plan and develop the Architectural Runway in support of new business features.
• Identify and resolve the existing critical technical debt.
• Build transparent systems with proper monitoring, observability, and alerting.
• Plan for robust build, test, and deployment automation
• Work with product stakeholders and front-end developers to understand the essence of requirements and to provide pragmatic solutions
• Work within an Agile framework

Requirements:

• 9-12 years of Professional experience designing/writing/supporting highly available web services.
• 5+ years of experience writing Nodejs applications.
• Experience with web services written in Nodejs.
• Understanding of distributed systems - performance bottlenecks, fault tolerance, and data consistency concerns.
• Experience working with cloud environments, such as AWS.
• Understanding of relational databases
• Experience building mission-critical systems, running 24x7
• Desire to work within a team of engineers at all levels of experience.
• Desire to mentor junior developers, maximizing their productivity.
• Familiarity with tools like Dynatrace, Grafana, or similar products to monitor web services.
• Experience with Kubernetes is a plus.
• Good written and spoken communication skills.