Job Description
Forbes Advisor is hiring a Lead Full Stack Developer! We are seeking the best of the best to join our highly skilled development team. If you have a proven track record of transforming concepts into reality, inspiring teams, and driving technical excellence within the headless CMS ecosystem, then this is the perfect opportunity for you!
Embark on this exhilarating journey as we transform technology and solidify our position as a technological leader in the US market.
Responsibilities
* Tech Infrastructure Leadership: Lead the expansion and modernization of our tech infrastructure, meticulously shaping the architecture and strategy to enhance our tech stack.
* Hands-on Development: Actively contribute to coding efforts, crafting high-quality, scalable code for both front-end and back-end components, ensuring alignment with project goals and technical standards.
* Documentation Excellence: Lead by example in creating detailed, clear, and accessible documentation for code, systems, and processes, enhancing team understanding and facilitating future development efforts.
* Team Leadership: Cultivate, mentor, and lead a team of talented developers, promoting a culture of collaboration, innovation, and high performance.
* Team Collaboration: Engage in productive teamwork within a group of highly skilled developers, elevating collective capabilities in a supportive and enjoyable environment.
* Agile Product Focus: Champion a product-centric agile methodology, prioritising customer-facing features through continuous deployment, embracing best practices, automated testing, and minimising maintenance overhead in all products.
Key Qualifications
* Proven track record leading development of modern, high-performance web applications end-to-end
* Strong proficiency in TypeScript, with solid experience across both backend (Node.js) and frontend (Next.js), including integration with headless CMS platforms (e.g., Builder.io or similar)
* Good understanding of relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization
* Experience designing or integrating lightweight asynchronous processing or job queue systems (e.g., SQS)
* Practical experience deploying, monitoring, and optimizing applications on cloud providers
* Comfortable designing, improving, and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
* Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform or Pulumi
* Core Web Vitals Optimization: Demonstrated ability to optimize for Core Web Vitals, guaranteeing superior user experiences across web platforms
* Understanding of application observability and performance monitoring in production environments
* Committed to engineering excellence through testing, maintainable code, and thorough documentation
Additional Information
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This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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