Fullstack NodeJS Architect Teamlead

Location: remote, Europe, Middle East, or Asia locations

Time Commitment: 0.5 FTU (Approx. 20 hours/week). Ability to collaborate with US-based stakeholders and developers across European and Asian timezones

Duration: long-term with potential for increased involvement

About us

Velvetech is an American global software development company headquartered in Miami, FL, and with an office in Chicago, IL. Velvetech has its developers strategically distributed in 10+ global technical job markets to deliver the best in class software engineering and exceptional client services.

We have 20+ years of experience in software and hardware development for clients all around the world, especially for US clients. As an official Microsoft Gold Partner, our company is listed in the top 5 software development companies in Illinois, USA.

US clients are leading trading and financial organizations, insurance companies, large healthcare associations, pharmaceutical and energy companies, equipment manufacturers, hi-tech startups, etc.

Areas of expertise are consulting, development, implementation, and support of software solutions. We implement modern backend solutions that support microservices architecture with the following technologies: NET Core, Node.js, Java, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ. For the web UI front-end development, we opt for React, or Angular, and for mobile development — Swift, Kotlin, Java. Most of the systems are designed for cloud infrastructures like AWS, Azure, GCP, and heavily rely on Docker, Kubernetes while modern CI/CD is made using GitLab CI or TeamCity. In September 2021, Velvetech LLC received the status of the official Training Provider of the International Institute of Business Analysis. This status gives us the right to conduct regular quality trainings for Business Analysts and anyone performing BA activities regardless their job title.

Principles are based on Agile Methodology, Scrum and Kanban. Various projects coded in GitLab or GitHub are built with multiple coordinated teams, collaborating via Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, and Slack. Velvetech constantly follows the Tech trends and actively cooperates with startups in such breakthrough areas as Machine Learning, the Internet of Things, Blockchain, FPGA, and AI.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly experienced and dedicated Architect / Hands-on Team Development Lead to oversee and enhance the development of a web-based healthcare marketplace for our client. This platform aims to connect hospitals and employers with qualified healthcare professionals worldwide, eliminating the need for traditional recruiters and providing a direct connection between healthcare providers and candidates

• Oversee the distributed development team
• Provide guidance and mentorship to developers to ensure high-quality output
• Serve as the primary point of contact between the project stakeholders and the offshore team
• Architect and set up the front-end structure to work seamlessly with back-end APIs
• Establish and enforce processes and technology guardrails for the development team
• Define patterns and policies for integrating third-party functionalities such as CMS, payment systems, etc
• Complete and optimize the DevOps pipeline for Azure deployment
• Develop comprehensive onboarding documentation for new developers
• Create and maintain technical documentation for ongoing and future development needs

Requirements

Experience that you need to have for this role:

• Strong experience with React for front-end development and NodeJS for the backend
• In-depth knowledge of GraphQL APIs
• Proficiency in MongoDB and Azure cloud services
• Solid understanding of Azure DevOps for continuous integration and deployment
• Proven experience in managing small development teams (2-4 members)
• Excellent organizational and multitasking skills
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English)

Tech Stack:

• Front-end: React
• Backend: NodeJS + GraphQL
• Database: MongoDB
• Cloud Services: Azure
• DevOps: Azure DevOps

Benefits

• Velvetech is in the TOP 5 development companies in Illinois, USA
• You have FLEXIBLE working conditions and a COOPERATIVE environment
• Competitive salary
• Many CHALLENGING and exciting projects with new opportunities and learning
• GROWTH opportunities, skills and competencies improvement, and professional certification
• In-company TRAINING (English, Software / DevOps / Project management / Design / Business)

What we offer

Future projects as highly loaded SaaS web-based services for automating business processes in the field of medicine, insurance, finance, energy, including modules for processing large data arrays, billing subsystems, integration with external data sources, mobile applications, and IP telephony systems.

Our team

We are a friendly team of 150+ professionals where everyone is able to achieve high results and grows professionally not only due to their own knowledge and skills but also with the support of colleagues. Values that we highly appreciate are high performance, responsibility, respect, and loyalty. In order to have a highly motivated team, Velvetech invests in their people, additional education, certification, and others. You choose your career path and we are here to support you!

People work together in harmony, encouraging each other to continuously learn, progress, and pursue perfection. Our employees enjoy working as we turn challenges into advantages to share success with each other.

You have a chance to become a part of a friendly and professional team that creates robust software solutions to deliver maximum value to our international clients.