Lead Engineer

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🕒 August 6

🌐 Argentina, Uruguay – Remote

🇦🇷 Argentina – Remote 🇺🇾 Uruguay – Remote

💵 $67k - $78k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Silver.dev

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1 - 10 employees

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • HR Tech • B2B

Silver. dev is a company dedicated to helping remote engineers find jobs at American tech startups. Founded by engineers for engineers, Silver. dev focuses on advocating for talented individuals by offering direct positions with startups, not acting as a middleman. The company supports a wide range of job seekers, from entry-level to those seeking top-of-market salaries, and provides resources and interview preparation to help candidates succeed. Silver. dev values mission and authenticity, sharing insights through its podcast, "Tecnología Informal. " They also offer services like English coaching and career leveling resources through SilverEd.

📋 Description

• Act as the Engineering lead within a squad, guiding the team on architectural decisions, best practices, and technical execution • Collaborate closely with frontend technical leads to ensure smooth integration between backend and frontend services • Lead the technical strategy for backend development, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance • Own the architecture and design of backend services and guide complex technical decisions • Develop and maintain robust, high-performance backend services using Node.js and NestJS (Express) • Research and implement new technologies, tools, and methodologies to improve development processes • Ensure system reliability and performance through testing, monitoring, and logging strategies • Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to align technical solutions with business goals • Mentor and coach backend developers • Establish and enforce coding standards and best practices • Oversee deployments and production operations, ensuring high availability and rapid issue resolution • Participate in hiring processes to attract and assess engineering talent

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend development • At least 2 years in a leadership or technical lead role • Strong expertise in Node.js and NestJS (Express) • Deep understanding of RESTful API design, security, and performance optimization • Advanced knowledge of relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including database modeling, performance tuning, and query optimization • Experience implementing unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks • Expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, preferably GCP, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) • Proven ability to mentor and develop engineering teams • Spanish and English proficiency • Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment with autonomy and ownership • Desirable: Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Kafka, PubSub, serverless computing, and cloud-native development patterns

🏖️ Benefits

• 100usd in app benefits • Insurance Policy • 15 PTO