Tech Lead (Node.js)

About the Position

We are building a B2B SaaS platform for the furniture industry that connects manufacturers, distributors, resellers, designers, and installation companies. The platform automates catalogs, sales, CRM, logistics, ERP integrations, and analytics, creating a single digital ecosystem for every market participant.

Responsibilities16

• Leading the development team and coordinating technical execution
• Breaking down architecture into implementation-ready tasks
• Distributing workload across engineers and supporting sprint planning
• Code reviews and maintaining engineering quality standards
• Mentoring developers and removing technical blockers
• Ensuring release stability and engineering discipline
• Managing technical debt and delivery risks
• Hands-on participation in development and key technical decisions
• Developing complex and critical system modules
• Translating architecture into practical implementation decisions
• Designing APIs, service interactions, and data models
• Ensuring scalability, performance, reliability, and security
• Supporting event-driven architecture implementation (Kafka)
• Working with databases and performance-sensitive backend logic
• Collaborating with Product Manager: discovery, refinement, estimation
• Documenting key technical decisions (ADR when needed)

Requirements20

• Experience as Tech Lead / Senior Team Lead
• Deep expertise in Node.js + TypeScript
• Strong understanding of microservices, DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing
• Solid PostgreSQL experience (performance, real production cases)
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines
• Strong engineering judgment and pragmatic decision-making
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Experience integrating external APIs
• Practical experience with TypeORM
• Experience designing and implementing authorization systems (RBAC / ABAC)
• Experience with Casbin or similar authorization frameworks
• 8–10+ years of backend development
• 3–5+ years leading engineering teams
• Experience delivering production systems
• Experience with distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of scalability, reliability, performance, and observability
• Experience mentoring developers and setting engineering standards
• Ability to translate technical decisions into delivery outcomes

Benefits7

• Fully remote work
• Flexible schedule (as long as key meetings are synced)
• Product built from scratch — no legacy constraints
• Real influence on technical decisions and engineering processes
• Ukrainian team (position open only to Ukrainian specialists)
• Salary pegged to USD
• Opportunities for technical and leadership growth