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Photon · 5 hours ago

Tech Lead - Node.JS

Dallas, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Photon is a company seeking a Tech Lead - Node.js to design and build domain-driven microservices. The role involves architecting systems, setting API standards, ensuring production readiness, and collaborating across teams to deliver integrated releases.

E-CommerceInformation TechnologyMobile AppsWeb DesignWeb Development

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design & build domain-driven, event-aware microservices in Node.js/TypeScript (Express/Fastify/NestJS) with clean, testable code

Architect greenfield systems: service boundaries, data models, REST APIs, event streams, CI/CD, observability, and runtime topology

Set API standards: versioning, OpenAPI/Swagger, pagination, error contracts, resiliency patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers)

Own production readiness: SLOs, dashboards, alerting, runbooks; lead incident triage/bridge calls and drive blameless RCAs

Collaborate across teams (web, mobile, data, security, ops) to unblock work, sequence dependencies, and land integrated releases

Communicate proactively with leadership: crisp status, risk/mitigation, dependencies, and measurable outcomes

Raise the bar: code reviews, engineering best practices, mentoring, pair programming, tech talks, and documentation

Think two steps ahead: anticipate edge cases, scaling, operability, and cost; recommend pragmatic sequencing and trade-offs

Qualification

Node.jsTypeScriptMicroservicesKubernetesCI/CDREST APIsPostgreSQL/MySQLCloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)CommunicationMentoringProblem Solving

Required

8+ years backend engineering (or equivalent impact)

Expert-level Node.js/TypeScript with proven delivery of domain-driven microservices at scale

Strong grasp of DDD (entities/aggregates/bounded contexts), event-driven architectures, and microservice patterns (saga, outbox, circuit breaker)

Designed secure, resilient public APIs used by web/mobile clients; deep understanding of authN/authZ (OAuth2/OIDC), secrets, and TLS

Production experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native deployment, CI/CD, and observability (metrics, traces, logs, SLOs)

Demonstrated success leading triage/incident response and driving RCAs to lasting improvements

Outstanding communication—able to simplify complex trade-offs, tell a delivery story, and keep partners aligned

Bias for action: you go the extra mile, anticipate the 'next two steps,' and ship high-quality software

Company

Photon

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Photon is a technology corporation that provides Strategy Consulting, Creative Design, and Technology Services to global enterprise.

Founded in 2007

London, England, GBR

5001-10000 employees

https://www.photon.in

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