Technical Lead (Microservices, Node.js) - Remote

Overview

LivePerson Voice is a state-of-the-art, born-in-the-cloud SaaS offering. Our Cloud platform is a multi-tenanted solution hosted on GCP using a modern technology stack. Most of our cloud software is deployed as microservices written in Node.JS on top of a NoSQL DB stack (MongoDB, Firebase, ElasticSearch). Our telephony connector layer is a mixture of ASP/.Net and Java code.

In Short

• Lead scrum teams of software development engineers and perform hands-on development work
• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency, enterprise scale applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Manage the projects by running daily scrum, perform the task assignment, tracking, impediment removal and enforcing the definition of done.
• Own the feature timelines by working closely with developers and deliver as committed to the stakeholders.
• Take the responsibility for creating and consolidating project timelines with risks, and communicating overall program health in a periodic manner
• Coordinate product deployments and releases management cycles, working with the field, CSMs, account teams and brands in all 3 regions (EMEA, NA and APAC)
• Track service levels (SLA) and schedule adherence, and ensure the individual teams meet and exceed their performance targets.
• Work together with cross regional teams in the US and Europe to coordinate and deliver engineering products.

Requirements

• 6+ years of industry experience building successful large scale production software systems
• At least 2+ years of experience as Scrum master/Project manager, owning end to end delivery of software products by defining projects, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features sets
• Experience in development of Microservices, RESTful API, backend systems
• Experience writing code with TypeScript, Javascript, Node.js or equivalent frameworks.
• Experience building applications using NoSQL databases like MongoDB.
• Code repository and deployment pipelines - GIT, Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong communication, writing, and organizational skills
• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or another quantitative field.

Benefits

• Health: Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Time away: Vacation and holidays
• Equal opportunity employer