Who We Are
Gelt is a global company with operations in the US, UK, and Israel. We are currently seeking a skilled and experienced Tech Lead to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining our applications and services. This position is hybrid requiring 3 days per week in our Nottingham (Long Eaton) office.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the design and implementation of product features in Gelt applications, APIs, and diagnostic and insights systems.
- Manage an established, high-performing team.
- Work closely with stakeholders from product, design, and engineering to align technological solutions with business goals and objectives.
- Get your hands dirty — our tech leaders are expected to develop code alongside the team.
- Understand complex product and feature goals and work with the team to design, review, test, and deliver them.
- Own features end-to-end, considering user experience, data models, scalability, operability, and ongoing metrics.
- Collaborate with the team to continuously improve standards, quality, knowledge, and communication.
Our Stack
- Backend: NestJS, NodeJS, TypeScript, Python
- Frontend: Vue 3, TypeScript
- Cloud: AWS
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- Utilities: Rush (monorepo), GitHub
- Tasks & Knowledge Base: Notion, Linear
- Communication: Slack, Zoom, Around
We are looking for someone who has:
- 5+ years of experience in hands-on development of production systems
- Strong production-level experience working with Typescript / Javascript / NodeJS
- Capability to work full-stack, but leans more towards backend
- Production-level experience working with AWS (or other cloud providers) to build, deploy, host and run services
- Experience in front-end frameworks such as Vue, React or Angular
- Familiarity with data engineering, relational, and NoSQL databases
- The ability to reason and communicate your opinions, while also being a team player and accepting others' approaches
- Clean coding skills with readable, simple, and maintainable code. You recognize bad code and search for better solutions.
- The ability to grasp large & complex systems and their inner workings.
- Experience in software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, immutability, etc)
- Full professional English proficiency (spoken and written)
- Located within East Midlands, UK or willing to commute
We appreciate people who are:
- Passionate about what they do
- Fast & creative thinkers & doers
- Friendly and approachable (good sense of humor is a must)
- Clear communicators at technical and non-technical levels