Tech Lead engineer

Tech Lead Engineer

As a Tech Lead engineer, you will be responsible for leading one or more teams building a scalable learning platform using modern development, deployment and monitoring technologies such as Node JS, Angular 2+, Docker, AWS, LogEntries, NewRelic etc. We have full-stack teams, where designers, product managers, and engineers work closely to build products that delight our customers.

What would you do?

• Lead one or more teams of engineers focused on building different parts of the product
• Lead teams in developing necessary logic and algorithms using technologies like nodejs, angularjs, css, html, angular elements, postgres and aws services.
• Responsible for producing high quality code for microsites and APIs
• Review, analyze and comprehend systems specifications, business requirements, capabilities and limitations of existing software/hardware environments.
• Write async code (callbacks, promises, async/await, observables) and publish/subscribe/event patterns.
• Participate in architecture reviews as part of Architecture Review Board (ARB)
• Maintain high test coverage across unit, functional and integration test suites
• Setup and conduct regular system deployments using our AWS-native continuous delivery pipeline including monitoring of application performance, logs and alerts
• Design, prototype and build user interfaces & POCs with a platform mindset
• Mentor engineers and provide feedback on their performance
• Collaborating with other tech leads and architects to build resilient & scalable platform
• Work on a fast-paced, agile engineering teams and collaborate with software engineers, QA engineers, UX and Design team and project managers
• Troubleshoot existing systems and applications
• Improve documentation of processes and systems
• Keep yourself up to date on latest web technologies and help drive innovation at KTP

What you need to have?

• Extensive experience with modern web stack technologies, including detailed knowledge of HTML, CSS and CSS preprocessors, JavaScript and MV* frameworks
• Understanding of API design and usage
• Dedication to the practice of unit testing
• Experience with large-scale production systems (i.e. scalability, high-availability, resiliency) with the ability to optimize implementation across all layers of architecture
• Experience with light-weight and/or Agile, test-driven development methodologies
• Knowledge of Web accessibility principles and techniques
• Knowledge of cloud-based services and architecture
• Interest in education and having a positive effect on learner
• An attitude of quality, diligence and thoroughness is essential

Salary: 135K base Plus benefits

Location: NYC

H1 is ok if the person has at least 2 years left in the 6 year cap.

Client files GC usually after 1 year