Hi Team,
We have an urgent requirement for the below position. Please share suitable profiles at the earliest.
Position: Lead Node.js Architect (70% Hands-on Coding / 30% Team Leadership)
Location: Dallas, TX (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract
Experience: 12+
Role Summary
We are looking for a highly skilled Lead Node.js Architect with strong hands-on development expertise. The ideal candidate should be an architect who actively contributes to coding (approximately 70% hands-on development) while also providing technical leadership and team guidance (30%).
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop domain-driven, event-driven microservices using Node.js and TypeScript.
- Build greenfield applications from concept to production.
- Define service boundaries, data models, REST APIs, event streams, CI/CD pipelines, and observability standards.
- Establish API standards including versioning, OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, pagination, and resiliency patterns.
- Lead production readiness initiatives including SLOs, monitoring dashboards, alerting, and incident response.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams including web, mobile, data, security, and operations.
- Provide proactive communication on project status, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
- Conduct code reviews, mentor team members, and promote engineering best practices.
- Drive RCA activities and continuous improvement initiatives.
Required Skills & Experience
- 9+ years of backend engineering experience.
- 4+ years of technical leadership experience.
- Expert-level experience with:
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Express.js / Fastify / NestJS
- Strong expertise in Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
- Experience building event-driven microservices architectures.
- Deep understanding of patterns such as Saga, Outbox, Circuit Breaker, and Idempotency.
- Strong experience designing secure public APIs.
- Hands-on knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, TLS, and secrets management.
- Production experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native deployments.
- Experience with CI/CD and observability practices.
- Proven experience leading incident triage and RCA activities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Technical Environment
APIs: REST, OpenAPI/Swagger, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT
Databases:
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- DynamoDB
- Redis
Messaging:
Cloud & Platform:
- AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- API Gateway / Ingress
- Terraform / CloudFormation
CI/CD & Observability:
- GitHub Actions / Jenkins
- ELK
- Dynatrace
- OpenTelemetry
- Datadog
- New Relic
- Prometheus
Nice to Have
- Telecom domain experience (ordering, provisioning, billing, identity).
- Experience with large consumer digital platforms.
- API Gateway expertise (Apigee/Kong).
- Knowledge of rate limiting, multi-tenant architectures.
- Performance tuning, capacity planning, and cloud cost optimization.
Please share matching profiles with updated resumes, contact details, visa status, current location, and availability.
Thanks & Regards
Naveen SK
US IT Recruiter
X-Axis Solutions Inc.
(434) 287-8302
nav...@xaxis.solutions