PEOPLED.

Backend Engineering Lead

Vietnam full-time Senior Salary not listed
full-time Senior level Technology & IT Curated
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About the role

The Opportunity:
Are you a seasoned and passionate engineering leader looking to take your next step? We're looking for an Engineering Lead for our client - a global health tech startup. The role will work on building and maintaining the products' backend services, APIs, and deployment, for the global health tech mobile platform.
Our client has recently received funding and are in a growth phase, expanding their teams and growing the business globally with big partners across health, pharma, and insurance. The engineering team is being coached by former YouTube and Slack Global Engineering Leads.
If building a truly best in the industry level of product and working as part of a talented group of engineers sounds exciting to you; please read on.
Responsibilities for this role:

Contribute on a daily basis to the codebase with attention to detail and high quality.

Architect and develop solutions to concrete user-facing problems, leading design and implementation of large software components, systems, and features.

Provide both strategic and tactical architecture and design guidance and input across all areas of the technical stack.

Build, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software, specifically APIs used by our native mobile client applications.

Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

Resolve challenging technical issues.

Collaborate closely with teammates and help grow their abilities through technical contributions and mentorship.

Contribute to a culture of quality and innovation for our engineering team and across the company,

The tech stack being worked with:

Front-end: Flutter, Firebase suite (Authentication, Firestore, Storage, Messaging)

Back-end: Node.js (NestJS / TypeScript), GCP (PubSub, Cloud Tasks, Functions, )

Testing: Jest, Appium, Cucumber

DevOps: GitHub Actions, GCP (Cloud Build, Cloud Run), Docker

Analytics: GCP DataStudio, BigQuery, Google Analytics, UXcam, CleverTap, Adjust

Tech expertise required to be successful in this role:

Extensive experience in NodeJS, TypeScript a plus.

Mastering at least 1 NodeJS framework(Express, MEAN, Hapi, etc...)

Experience with a noSQL datastore and data modelling.

Experience with DevOps and cloud infrastructure AWS or GCP and docker. Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform services are a big plus.Experience in software debugging.

Ability to code review and provide feedback on the work of other developers.

BS degree in computer science or similar experience; graduate degree a plus.

Experience required to be successful:

8+ years of relevant industry experience

Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment with quick iteration, continuous deployment, and test-driven development;

Excellent communication skills in English (professional and personal fluency); Vietnamese is a plus.

Team management experience and product mindset:

Experience in technical leadership and mentorship on a team of software engineers (2~6 people)

Experience helping interview, hire, and onboard peers, and delegating responsibilities to others in order to scale a team.

Positive attitude and willingness to roll up sleeves and dig deep to achieve goals;

Strong bias for action - you know we have a lot to deliver and you can help us get there

What's great about this role?

Work with a team of talented and committed software engineers to deliver products that you can be proud of,

Use modern technologies, with full autonomy on technical orientations and decisions

Deliver a product that has a positive impact on people's health, worldwide, and is backed by large healthcare corporations and institutions,

Global footprint (Latin America, Southeast Asia) with roll-out plan in Europe for 2022

Senior leadership team with successful previous exits,

Direct coaching by former YouTube and Slack Global Engineering Leads,

Flexible working location (engineering team timezone is GMT+7),

Very competitive compensation package.

What's challenging about the role?

You will be fully visible and accountable for your work.

You will be working with experts who expect you to be excellent in your field.

We adhere to global product and technical standards to ensure quality, security, scalability.

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Technology & IT Data Analysis Javascript Remote Collaboration Backend Engineering Senior level

Likely questions

  1. Tell us about work you have done that is close to the Backend Engineering Lead role.
  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at PEOPLED.?
  3. Which of Data Analysis, Javascript and Remote Collaboration have you used recently, and what did it help you achieve?
  4. How have you led people, improved a process, or made a hard decision in a previous role?
  5. How do you handle busy days, changing priorities, or pressure at work?

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  • A recent example that proves your experience with Data Analysis, Javascript and Remote Collaboration.
  • One short story with a problem, your action, and the result.
  • Two examples that show the strengths listed on your CV.
  • A clear reason why this role and company interest you.
  • Your availability, preferred work style, and salary expectations.

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  • What would success look like in the first 90 days?
  • What are the main problems this hire should help solve?
  • How does the team give feedback and measure good work?
  • What does a normal working week look like for this role?
Practice line

I am interested in the Backend Engineering Lead role because I can bring practical experience in Data Analysis, Javascript and Remote Collaboration, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes PEOPLED. needs from this hire.

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