Job Description
Hands-On Tech Lead Digital API team is looking for a hands-on Tech Lead with deep Node.js/TypeScript expertise to design and deliver domain-driven microservices for customer-facing digital experiences. You'll own greenfield builds from zero-to-production, lead engineers by example (coding ~70% of the time), and drive cross-team triage while keeping leadership proactively informed. What You'll Do Design & build domain-driven, event-aware microservices in Node.js/TypeScript (Express/Fastify/NestJS) with clean, testable code. Architect greenfield systems: service boundaries, data models, REST APIs, event streams, CI/CD, observability, and runtime topology. Set API standards: versioning, OpenAPI/Swagger, pagination, error contracts, resiliency patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers). Own production readiness: SLOs, dashboards, alerting, runbooks; lead incident triage/bridge calls and drive blameless RCAs. Collaborate across teams (web, mobile, data, security, ops) to unblock work, sequence dependencies, and land integrated releases. Communicate proactively with leadership: crisp status, risk/mitigation, dependencies, and measurable outcomes. Raise the bar: code reviews, engineering best practices, mentoring, pair programming, tech talks, and documentation. Think two steps ahead: anticipate edge cases, scaling, operability, and cost; recommend pragmatic sequencing and trade-offs. Tech Stack You'll Work With Languages/Frameworks: Node.js, TypeScript, Express/Fastify/NestJS APIs: REST, OpenAPI/Swagger, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT Data: PostgreSQL/MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB), Redis cache Messaging/Streaming: Kafka/RabbitMQ (sagas, outbox, idempotency) Cloud & Platform: One major cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, API Gateway/Ingress, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) CI/CD & Observability: GitHub Acti