Frontend Technical Lead

About us

1. We help scientists choose the optimal laboratory kits and materials for each unique experiment setup.
2. We make purchasing transactions more efficient for both buyers and sellers.
3. For our vendor partners, we provide a valuable, expanded sales channel.

About the Role

• Provide technical leadership to the team with design, architecture and estimation. Own end-to-end implementation of new initiatives and/or enhancements to existing initiatives
• Work with the Product Manager and the team in planning and elaborating technical stories for sprint releases
• Participate in troubleshooting production issues and work with the team to continuously evaluate and improve the quality, reliability and scalability of the ZAGENO platform
• Conduct research, build proof-of-concepts, and lead architecture/design discussions
• Continuously evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements
• Take complete ownership of a key aspect of the platform and mentor the team in owning the codebase – all the way to production, including continuous deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Build relationships with architects, business owners and other stakeholders across ZAGENO and influence technology decisions based on data
• Carry out regular code reviews, enforce coding best practices, source control, and deliverables
• Jump on hands-on coding to help developers in the team to get tasks done and remove blockers
• Enforce clear, cohesive, comprehensive, and well-written technical documentation at all times, in-code files, and external documentation (diagrams, technical design document, technical approach, summary deck ware)

About You

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience with modern frontend-side technology like React, Vue or Angular
• Good understanding of the micro-frontends approach.
• Understanding of microservices and hands-on experience building RESTful or GraphQL APIs. 
• 8 years of demonstrated software engineering experience in an agile environment designing, architecting and implementing robust distributed/scalable systems preferably for modern SaaS application
• 3 years of technical leadership experience
• Have previously led projects from beginning to production
• Knowledge of API Management frameworks and building scalable and high-performance APIs and workflows.

• Previously worked in the eCommerce space
• Experience migrating a Monolithic platform to a Microservice based architecture preferably for modern SaaS application
• Previously worked with Python, Java or NodeJS as a main backend technology.
• Previously worked with technologies such as Mosaic9, Podium, Single-SPA or similar.
• Highly engaged technologist with broad experience across a variety of operations and services including infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, real-time OLTP systems , serverless & containerized deployments, and zero trust security
• Experience with advanced SQL or No-SQL databases is a plus

Our Benefits

• Working for a mission-driven business with a meaningful challenge making a positive impact on the scientific community
•  A clear growth perspective
• A professional and dynamic team with a global vision and mindset
• An exciting, international working environment (we have 45 nationalities!)
• Competitive compensation
• Hybrid Working model - you can work from home and from the office
• A learning and development budget to enable your ambitions to grow 
• A budget to improve your home office environment

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