Kodo

Job Title: Tech Lead (backend)
 As a Tech Lead, you take end-to-end ownership of backend initiatives, leading design, planning, and execution in close&nbsp;collaboration with engineers and stakeholders. You lead by example through hands-on development, setting high&nbsp;standards for code quality, testing, and architectural excellence. You continuously evaluate, evolve, and refactor core&nbsp;systems to ensure they remain robust, readable, and maintainable, supported by pragmatic test coverage.
 Responsibilities ● Extensive experience in backend development using Node.js and TypeScript (preference for NestJS) ● Lead design, planning, and estimation discussions within the team and with cross-functional partners and business stakeholders ● Conduct high-level system analysis and architecture design, ensuring alignment with business requirements, technical standards, and overall architecture guidelines ● Facilitate requirement gathering and translate complex business needs into clear technical specifications ● Oversee the creation and maintenance of project and technical documentation ● Identify and mitigate risks throughout the SDLC, proposing solutions to complex technical problems ● Apply advanced knowledge of system flows and define standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation ● Oversee production support processes in collaboration with operations and business stakeholders; analyze issue patterns to drive continuous improvement ● Guide documentation efforts, maintain on-call rotations, lead post-mortems, resolve root causes, and improve performance, scalability, and reliability ● Provide technical leadership and act as a mentor/coach to mid-level developers, analysts, and graduates ● Bring hands-on experience across API integrations, databases, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies ● Lead from the front with a hands-on approach, mentoring engineers and helping scale team capabilities ● Demonstrate strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
 Qualifications ● 7+ years of overall experience in backend development with Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, and PostgreSQL ● Strong experience building RESTful APIs and microservices ● Experience building and deploying solutions on Azure Cloud ● Strong understanding of unit testing principles and best practices ● Hands-on experience with testing frameworks such as Jest (and exposure to JUnit is a plus) ● Experience writing unit tests for Node.js applications; familiarity with Java codebases is an advantage ● Practical experience applying Test-Driven Development (TDD) ● Experience managing and delivering successful projects end-to-end ● Ability to adjust priorities quickly in a fast-changing environment ● Demonstrated technical leadership and project ownership ● Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills ● Solid understanding of modern software architecture patterns ● Strong coaching mindset with a passion for knowledge sharing and team development ● Comfortable working in ambiguous environments and learning new technologies quickly ● Ability to make long-term architectural decisions aligned with business goals ● High personal and team quality standards with a strong sense of ownership
 Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field