We are looking for a Team Lead Backend Engineer (Node.js) to drive backend engineering initiatives, defining and delivering scalable, secure, and cloud-native solutions using Node.js. The role will oversee architecture decisions, team development, and end-to-end delivery in an Agile environment while ensuring alignment with both business and technical strategy.
Responsibilities
- Lead design, development, and optimization of backend services using Node.js
- Define and drive backend architecture, API strategy, and integration patterns
- Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing backend engineering team
- Provide requirements analysis, technical design, effort estimation, and sprint planning
- Ensure high standards of code quality, performance, scalability, and security
- Collaborate closely with frontend, DevOps, product, and business stakeholders
- Support cloud architecture decisions and ensure successful cloud deployments
Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with Node.js backend development, including REST APIs, asynchronous programming patterns, and streaming
- Proven Team Lead experience with ownership of technical decisions, team delivery, and engineering processes
- Strong experience working with AWS cloud services, especially EKS, RDS, MSK, Cognito, and ElastiCache
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is considered a strong advantage
- Experience designing and building event-driven systems using Apache Kafka or similar streaming technologies
- Experience building scalable integrations with third-party APIs, including retries, circuit breakers, timeout handling, rate limiting, and resilient communication patterns
- Experience with SQL Server or PostgreSQL databases
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (e.g. Temporal.io, AWS Step Functions) is a plus
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and Agile delivery experience
Nice-to-Have
- Telecom, UCaaS, or SaaS platform background
- TM Forum API standards familiarity
- Experience with Apache Camel or similar integration frameworks
- SIP/VoIP protocol familiarity
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Miratech is hiring a Team Lead Backend Engineer (Node.js)
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Miratech helps visionaries change the world. We are a global IT services and consulting company that brings together enterprise and start-up innovation. Today, we support digital transformation for some of the world's largest enterprises. By partnering with both large and small players, we stay at the leading edge of technology, remain nimble even as a global leader, and create technology that helps our clients further enhance their business.
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