Research Development Team Lead

Our awesome client is an analytics SaaS startup and is looking for an R&D Team Lead to join their expanding team. The R&D Team Leader will need to combine great management skills with a mature and advanced Technology understanding, in-order to succeed in this position. The position is 50% managerial - 50% hands-on.

The responsibilities

• Take the position of leading the technology division
• Report directly to the CEO, Working closely with Product and QA teams 
• Lead a team of 10 developers (8 of them outsourced)

Technological Knowledge

• 5+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale and high-traffic online web applications - Required.
• Strong knowledge of architectural principles, coding standards, design patterns, and best practices.
• Node.js: at least 5 years experience as a main programming language. (knowledge in Express.js, npm, high concurrency systems, es6, performance tuning).
• SQL: 5+ years of experience with SQL querying and ingestion of large data 
• Front-end: 3 years experience with client-side (HTML, Javascript, CSS) - Knowledge in REACT is an advantage.
• AWS: Advantage - experience in managing an AWS production environment (Lambda, ECS, EC2, API gateway, CloudFront, AWS roles, Firehose, S3). 
• Linux OS: managing linux based environments.