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Job DescriptionOverview
Software Mind is seeking qualified candidates to fill the role of Staff/Lead Software Engineer.
In addition to a competitive salary rate and a positive work environment, committed to delivering high-quality technology solutions, and we also offer:
- Flexible schedules and authentic work-life balance
- Opportunities for continuing education
- Social activities per country sponsored by the company
- Birthday celebration
- Payment in US Dollars
About the role:
We are looking for a Staff (Lead) Software Engineer with expertise in React, TypeScript, Node.js, and SSR frameworks such as Next.js or Nuxt.js. The focus of the work is full-stack, with a slight emphasis on front-end.
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Qualifications
The main responsibilities/tasks include:
Your work will include both hands-on development and Team Lead duties:
Hands-on development duties (60%)
- Write great code and be a team player who is willing to share your expertise and knowledge with others.
- Iterating and updating client-facing web pages and flows that guide users toward the right company-related products to meet their needs.
- Perform data integrations within the decision process to improve customer experience.
- Contribute to the design and development of new applications, features, and flows to make the customer experience more intuitive and user-friendly.
- Support ongoing efforts to optimize the client's end-to-end SDLC, while maintaining best practices.
- Work throughout the full tech stack using React.js, TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, SQL, REST API, Context API, and more.
- Own and drive various projects and support senior engineers in driving other projects
Team Lead duties (40%):
- Work collaborative and help “up-level” the team through mentorship, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and pair programming as needed on complex development tasks
- Be a true owner in every sense of the word as it relates to your work, responsibilities, and commitment to the team, and be an intrinsically motivated self-starter
- Provide thought leadership/expertise around the right level of engineering for a given solution to help ensure projects are not “over-engineered”
- Bring strong technical opinions to the table, but hold them loosely, being humble enough to let them go and move forward if the group consensus goes in another direction
- Attend and contribute to architecture and design meetings and discussions
- Partner with the Engineering Manager to:
- Plan the roadmap & quarterly OKRS
- Break down product requirements into actionable user stories
- Bring a technical voice to planning & refinement meetings
- Maintain a high bar for engineering excellence
- Establish technical guardrails, conventions, and best practices
- Suggest process improvements and ideas to make the team better
Job Skills/Requirements
- +90% English written and oral (at least B2 level) with excellent communication skills
- 8–10 years of professional experience in software development.
- 1–2 years in a technical leadership role (e.g., Tech Lead, Team Lead, or Staff Engineer), demonstrating leadership and ownership of complex systems.
- Expertise in React, advanced TypeScript, Node.js, and SSR frameworks such as Nest.js (v13) or Next.js
- Experience with Astro.js, or similar modern web frameworks, with the ability to quickly ramp up on emerging technologies
- Familiarity with islands architecture, partial hydration, or comparable strategies for optimizing front-end performance and interactivity
- Familiarity with emerging web frameworks and concepts like Astro.js, partial hydration, and islands architecture.
- Strong understanding of web performance optimization, including Core Web Vitals, caching strategies, static generation, and rendering techniques.
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and uphold high standards in code quality and development best practices.
- Experience building and maintaining scalable, production-ready applications.
- Solid product mindset with the ability to align technical solutions with business objectives.
- Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and design.
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog):
- Experience setting up dashboards, configuring alerts, and tracing issues in prod environments
Nice to have:
- Knowledge and understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IAC),
- Experience working on an organically driven website at a scale
- Experience working with data analytics tools and understanding complex analytics schemas
- Experience with CI/CD
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What We Do
Software Mind is a global digital transformation partner with operations throughout Europe, the US and LATAM. Driven by tech and empowered by people, we provide companies with software engineers and autonomous, cross-functional development teams who manage software life cycles from ideation to release and beyond.
For over 20 years we’ve been enriching organizations with the talent they need to boost scalability, drive dynamic growth and bring disruptive ideas to life. Our top-notch engineering teams combine ownership with leading technologies, including cloud, AI, data science and embedded software to accelerate digital transformations and boost software delivery.
A culture, driven by trust, that embraces openness, craves more and acts with respect enables our experts to create evolutive solutions that support scale-ups, unicorns and enterprise-level companies around the world.
