Software Team Lead

Job Description

We are looking for a qualified Senior Team Lead  with strong technical background and communication skills to manage multiple projects. As the Senior Team Lead, you will be responsible for architecting, developing and delivering high quality, scalable and secure software solutions and software designs in support of innovative products.

The team lead will work as part of an agile continuous delivery team and collaborate with designers, senior developers, UX, project managers, and others to help deliver product capabilities and features. You will be working to develop new frameworks and scalable infrastructure (no legacy here!) utilizing technologies such as MEAN/MERN stack, AWS, Automation, Docker Containers, Chef, Puppet, Ansible etc.

Cinnova is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. Cinnova provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

Responsibilities:

• Architecting and developing highly scalable and secure cloud architectures using micro-services and server-less frameworks in addition to client-server based frameworks.
• Interacting with UX and Ops to participate in architecture, design, and review meetings.
• Working with development and project management teams to define user story acceptance criteria during a sprint, break down complex stories into tasks, and estimate, plan and deliver.
• Working closely with the developers to develop the best technical design and approach.
• Write coding, tests, doing research, analyze, and become an expert in cutting-edge technologies, frameworks, architecture and design.
• Moving fast: looking for new ideas, quickly prototype, A/B test, and move to production Stay up-to-date with development trends, cloud technologies, open source, and best practices.
• Mentoring more junior developers, do code reviews, peer programming.
• Stay up-to-date with development trends, cloud technologies, open source, and best practices.
• Mentoring more junior developers, do code reviews, peer programming.
• Other duties as needed.

Requirements

While we know you may not have everything on the list to be successful you are likely to have;

• 6-9 years of experience working with enterprise software development.
• Excellent knowledge and significant experiences with large-scale web & server applications.
• Software design, selection and implementation experience in an object- oriented environment, performance tuning and stability is a must.
• Extensive Development experience with JavaScript (client and server sides), React, Node.js, MEAN and/or MERN stacks is mandatory.
• Extensive experience (5+ years or more) of architecting highly scalable, available and secure solutions using AWS.
• Extensive Development experience in other open source technologies like PHP and related frameworks (Laravel, CodeIgniter, Cake, Magento) and/or Ruby on Rails will be a huge plus.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate/Professional is a big plus.
• Experience with AWS, REST APIs, Docker, containers, micro-services/AWS lambda is a must.
• Experience with variety of SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Hibernate/ORM) and/or NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Mongo, RethinkDB, ElasticSearch).
• Experience with DevOps tooling for development (Docker, Vagrant), orchestration (Kubernetes, Google, or AWS cloud) and deployment (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Experience in production deployments on IaaS (AWS, GCE, Azure, OpenStack) and PaaS (Cloud Foundry) a big plus.
• Familiarity with Jira or other productivity platform is a plus.
• Experience leading agile teams and mentoring more junior developers, including students.
• Adept at evaluating open source frameworks, commercial frameworks and technology options.
• Desire to work in a fast paced, deadline driven, start-up environment.
• Bachelor’s degree with strong academic performance in a Computer Science related field.

Nice to have:

• Agile Certification
• Technical Certification

Perks and Benefits:

• Competitive Salary 
• Provident Fund
• Medical Allowances
• Professional Trainings
• Quarterly/Annual Performance Bonus and Awards
• Football, Ping Pong and Board Games Galore
• Company sports teams, game nights, dinners, trips
• Fun and dynamic working environment 

About Cinnova:

Cinnova is an innovation-focused software development company helping startups and established firms with their MVPs, product design, and ongoing software development needs. With a proven track record of contributing to continuous growth, Cinnova has been part of rapid expansions and some great exits for our clients. From Blockchain technology to IoT development, AI, Machine Learning, and beyond, we have always been at the forefront of the technology landscape by bringing innovation to both startups and growth companies.

Cinnova = (C)reativity + (innova)tion. This is our guiding principal both internally for our employees and externally for our customers. With that in mind, we promote a startup culture and encourage innovative ideas to incorporate in our delivery to our clients. This has been very successful as we are proud to have members who come from a startup background and continue to help Cinnova being an innovation hub.