Lead Fullstack Engineer

Here at Mindera, we are continuously developing a fantastic team and would love it for you to join us. We are looking for a Fullstack Engineering Lead that loves technology and enjoys building highly performant and secure services, that will be used by thousands of customers and deal with millions of transactions per minute.

You will be responsible for building fluid and responsive user interfaces for multiple platforms and devices. You will give tech oversight and leadership across three squads, as well as coaching and mentoring team members. You will have an appetite for solving complex problems and building seamless user interactions to world-class standards.

Requirements

• Vanilla JavaScript and/or TypeScript and modern frameworks and platforms such as React and Next.js;
• Writing semantic and accessible HTML;
• Developing performant, resilient and secure services/functions/components;
• Building and handling asynchronous and event-driven workflows;
• Protocols and architectural patterns like HTTP, REST and/or GraphQL;
• Creating testable code and making testing a priority;
• Being passionate, self-driven and working with little supervision towards a common team or company purpose;
• State management architectures in React applications
• Care deeply about user interface performance and responsiveness
• Experience with unit testing using Jest and React Testing Library or Enzyme
• Engaging and interacting with clients during feedback sessions, focus groups, user groups, and requirements gathering sessions. Practices open and honest communications with clients.

It also would be cool if you

• Have experience working with SQL and NoSQL data stores;
• Experienced with Node.js, Express.js, Next.js, AWS, Terraform and Bitbucket Pipelines
• Know about service oriented architectures, design patterns and data structures;
• Are used to working with code versioning tools like Git in a continuous delivery process;
• Use code quality tools like linters, type checkers and static analysers;
• Have experience using cloud platforms like AWS, GCP or Azure;
• Care about all the steps your code goes through from your machine to production and know about or are curious of technologies like containers;
• Are comfortable with agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban;

What you will be doing

• Leading and supporting different engineering teams to allow them to properly interact with your product.
• Developing and maintaining features in a collaborative, Agile environment;
• Writing testable code and ensuring the test coverage stays at the agreed level;
• Documenting your code;
• Take ownership of your code every step of the way - from development to deployment and maintenance;
• Diagnose issues in production and devise solutions for them;
• Work both autonomously and collaboratively to complete tasks;
• Be an integral part of solutions design and implementation;

Benefits

We offer

• Flexible and autonomous working
• Annual bonus, subject to company performance
• Multiple salary cycle’s a year (including self-proposed salary increases)
• Access to Udemy online training and opportunities to learn and grow within the role
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, shared parental and adoption leave and pay
• 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays). After 2 years of employment, you are entitled to an additional day a year increasing up to a maximum of 30 days leave.
• Private Medical Healthcare with Aviva
• Pension scheme (up to 8% matched)
• Social activities, including annual Summer and Christmas parties
• Conference budget
• Eye Test Voucher
• Autonomous working
• Cycle2Work
• Retail Discounts Scheme

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love. Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera. We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

Check out our Blog: http://mindera.com/ and our Handbook: http://bit.ly/MinderaHandbook

Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India

Mindera is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender including gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other protected status. All matters related to employment are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.