What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Node.js / React Engineer position at Saicon?
Job Description:
Our client is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their growing engineering team focused on building scalable, modern applications. Based in Livingston, NJ, this is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring strong expertise in Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, distributed systems, and cloud-native development. The ideal candidate will contribute throughout the SDLC while helping shape architecture, engineering standards, and development practices.Responsibilities:
- Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript, along with modern React applications.
- Architect and build new applications and services with an emphasis on scalability, availability, reliability, and performance.
- Develop and integrate REST, GraphQL, and microservices-based APIs.
- Work across SQL and NoSQL/distributed databases, including performance analysis and optimization.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and containerized environments using Docker and tools such as Jenkins.
- Implement application monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities.
- Troubleshoot production issues, identify root causes, and implement sustainable solutions.
- Develop automated tests and promote TDD, code quality, maintainability, and modern engineering practices.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and architectural decisions.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, QA, and other technical teams throughout the development lifecycle.
- Provide technical direction and mentorship to other engineers while communicating technical risks, dependencies, and delivery status to leadership.
- 10 years of professional software development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Solid React development experience.
- Proven ability to design and develop highly scalable, available, and high-performance applications.
- Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, backend architecture, and software design principles.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, automated testing, and TDD.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, Docker, and Jenkins or comparable tools.
- Strong troubleshooting and application/database performance optimization skills.
- Ability to provide technical leadership while remaining highly hands-on in a collaborative engineering environment.
- Experience with GraphQL, microservices, cloud-native development, and observability.
- Additional programming experience with Java, Python, Go, or C#.
- Background in DevOps/platform engineering or build engineering.
- Experience establishing architecture and engineering standards for new products.
- Prior experience mentoring engineers or serving in a technical leadership capacity.