Lead Full Stack Developer

Summary

The Lead Full Stack Developer will lead a small team (6-8 FTEs) of full stack developers and test automation engineers. They will collaborate with a Business Analyst and Product Lead to plan and execute agile development.

• Lead an agile team of developers and test automation engineers and grow them into a high-performance team.
• Hands‑on role with extensive involvement in the full development lifecycle, including designing, developing, implementing, testing, maintenance and enhancement of products.
• Hands on experience in leveraging AI tools and technologies during development lifecycle to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Accountable for the quality of the product delivered and team performance.
• Provide technical direction and mentor teams of resources in all aspects of technical delivery incorporating efficient workflows, frameworks, templates, design and code best practices to produce reusable and maintainable code.
• Implement the best practices of Agile and Dev Sec Ops  to deliver quality products predictably and consistently.
• Lead the evaluation of functional/business and technical requirements and identify gaps/risks.
• Review proposed new feature development to validate feasibility and estimate the development work.
• Serve as the technical and technology expert crafting the detailed application design with a focus on standards, performance, flexibility, scalability and security, as well as supporting the implementation of the solution.
• Provide validation of proposed technical architectures and solutions.
• Monitor and analyze product performance in production, while looking for ways to optimize and scale existing solutions.
• Evaluate product and process metrics (such as velocity, productivity, quality, usability) and implement process improvements.
• Reinforce strategies, standards, and architecture are consistent and well‑integrated across different product teams by creating and engaging in communities of practice.
• Keep abreast of the emerging tools and technologies and make recommendations for relevant platform and technologies.
• Keep skills up to date through ongoing self‑directed training.
• Recommend senior management on improvement areas.
• Help application developers to adopt new platforms through documentation, training, and mentoring.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 10+ years of full‑lifecycle application development experience and at least 3 years of experience using the technologies listed below and AWS cloud platform.
• Experience in architecting and designing solutions and decompose them into modules for development.
• 5+ years of experience using Agile, Dev Sec Ops , Test‑driven development and other lean methodologies.
• Must have implementation experience on using Agile project management tools (JIRA), and CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, testing and deployment.
• Experience developing cloud native solutions according to industry best practices.
• Extensive hands‑on experience in JavaScript (React.js, Node.js, modern JavaScript libraries – ES6+), API development (Graph
  
  QL/RESTful), messaging (Kafka, AWS Kinesis or others), serverless application development using AWS Lambda, SQL and No
  
  SQL databases, AWS services (Lambda, S3, Dynamo, Kinesis, RDS, Redshift and several others).
• Strong experience in database queries and working preferably with MySQL.
• Good understanding of AI models, agentic development and RAG concepts.
• Experience in using AI tools, e.g., Copilot, AWS Bedrock, etc. to generate code for development and automation testing.
• Experience in establishing source code management best practices (branching, repository structure, peer review process, documentation) to manage a code base as if it were open source.
• Experience in establishing release management processes and standards.
• Deep understanding of industry patterns for application architecture and integration.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present and comprehend technical details clearly.
• Must be able to demonstrate product demos to users and stakeholders, collect feedback and implement improvements.
• Ability to mentor junior resources,…