Full-Stack Technical Lead Porto

Full-Stack Technical Lead
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

Since we were established in 2012, headquartered in the United Kingdom, we have rapidly expanded to lead the way in technology partnerships, collaborating with numerous businesses worldwide.

Full-Stack Technical Lead (Remote)

Location: Remote (UK Business Hours)

Job Type: Freelance / Contract

Duration: Initial 6-7 months (to Sept), anticipated
- term / renewal

Rate: £3000-5000 GBP per month retainer based on experience

Languages: Fluency in English, both verbally & in writing, is mandatory.

About the Role

We are looking for a Full-Stack Technical Lead to drive software development for a complex
- funded greenfield Saa
S solution. Expected to be a multi-year endeavour from MVP to
- complete. If successful, it will enable use cases relating to KBs & knowledge sharing, data science &
- driven work planning, collaboration & client management.

You will help plan and manage technical direction by working with product, design, architecture & delivery leadership and a team of engineers. We’re a small team, so you’ll be involved in design & implementation
-
- end of a rich SPA web client, complex backing services & APIs, and all the plumbing to bring a product to life.

You will probably get to tackle topics like:

• Real-time messaging & notifications and CMS/DAMs/DBs featuresets & services.
• Third party data, data science & lake workflows & platform integrations.
• Single,
  - tenant and
  - tenant standards compliant solution design & delivery.
• And you’ll be both supported and afforded a high degree of autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the full team to refine features that will deliver seamless user experiences according to
  - defined requirements.
• Lead and mentor your
  - stack team of engineers, ensuring best practices & standards in architecture, coding & Dev
  Ops are well defined and met.
• When appropriate, lead by example and get
  - on by architecting, developing, and optimising solutions using appropriate technologies.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends & technological advancements, so you can bring your informed opinion & insights to bear to ensure a high quality outcome that all can enjoy implementing and be proud of.

Requirements

• 7+ years of
  - stack development experience in a commercial setting.
• Previous technical leadership or technical management experience.
• Able & willing to work to UK timezone / hours.
• Fluent in English, both verbally & in writing.

Suitable Applicants will have expertise in:

• SPA engineering using Typescript, particularly using React framework, judiciously choosing accompanying libraries and technologies.
• Backend services & API engineering, particularly using typed Node. js based frameworks like Payload
  CMS.
• Big 3 cloud platform services & solutions, particularly AWS (such as Aurora / RDS, Dynamo
  DB, Lambda, S3, Cloud
  Watch, ECS / EKS, Cognito, Cloud
  Front, VPCs and so on).
• Evaluating & integrating Saa
  S & Paa
  S to complete solutions (e. g. for Id
  Ps, security, monitoring, logging & alerting, analytics & data science workflows).
• Modern Dev
  Ops principles & practices (such as git
  Ops / CI/CD using Github Actions or similar, Ia
  C, SAST & Pa
  C) and technologies (such as Pulumi, Terraform/CDKTF, Docker & Kubernetes).
• Identifying and applying application & infrastructure best practices relating to security, availability & cost optimisation concerns (such as OWASP top 10, GDPR, PII & ISO27001,
  - availability & fault tolerance, scaling & orchestration).