Lead Product Software Engineer - Vital Law

A Development Lead plays a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of software projects by combining technical expertise with leadership and management skills to guide and support their team throughout the development lifecycle. They must simultaneously be a developer by staying intimately involved in the technical work of their team, and a leader, helping to guide their team to realize their potential and further the organization’s goals. A lead developer can be thought of as a bridge between an engineering team and management. They are a senior member of the team who can give technical guidance as well as mentor developers on the team. As a manager, a lead developer needs to demonstrate leadership. They encourage their developers to operate at their top potential and work together as a true team.

Lead developers may write code themselves, but much of their time will be used in conducting code reviews of components being created by other developers. They ensure and manage day-to-day progress as their team tackles their assigned tasks. They need to have a strong understanding of the overall business priorities for their team and need to be able to advocate for what their team needs to do their job while also making sure their team delivers on what company management expects.

Essential Duties and responsibilities

• Develop and maintain modern UI SaaS applications using typescript, React.js, NodeJS and AngularJS
• Implement security best practices for web applications, including authentication and authorization mechanisms
• Work with Kibana for log analysis and monitoring
• Optimize UI performance, build responsive applications and ensure cross-browser compatibility
• Participate in Agile development, peer code reviews, estimation and sprint planning.
• Actively participates in architectural discussions and ensures that designs follow the approved architectural patterns.
• Continually learn about new technologies, generate new ideas and improve the use of technology in the product.

Job Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, MIS, or related field.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain modern UI applications using typescript, React.js, NodeJS and AngularJS
• Implement security best practices for web applications, including authentication and authorization mechanisms
• Work with Kibana for log analysis and monitoring
• Optimize UI performance, build responsive applications and ensure cross-browser compatibility
• Participate in Agile development, peer code reviews, estimation and sprint planning

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the software industry with 4+ years of experience as technical team lead
• Experience in working in agile teams using technologies like React.Js, Node.JS, typescript and different kind of datastores.
• Strong UI expertise, a deep understanding of frontend frameworks, and experience working with modern cloud-based applications

Key Skills:

• Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, AngularJS and Jest, Mocha, Sinon
• Backend & API Integration: Node.js creation of RESTful APIs (and orchestration)
• Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Jira, Git, Rush, (we use infra as code but run containers for local development)
• Security & Logging: Security Best Practices, ELK, Kibana
• Version Control & Build Tools: GitHub/BitBucket
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong experience in Typescript, React.js and NodeJS
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Knowledge of Security best practices (e.g., authentication, authorization, secure coding)
• Strong experience in Unit Testing (vitest, Cypress) and Logging frameworks

Competencies/Soft skills:

• Critical thinkers who like engineering challenges.
• Proficiency in English. Both verbal and written.
• Working in an international environment with different cultures.
• Proactive and not afraid to reach out to other teams for help and suggestions.
• Being able to show and present both problems and great solutions.

Supplemental skills

• Design for accessibility.
• Work with MS copilot to enhance productivity

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.