Web Development Manager/Lead (Node.js)

Location: Onsite in New York, NY

Company

A leading company seeking hands-on technical leadership for scalable web application development and legacy platform modernization.

What you will do

• Lead hands-on full-stack development of scalable, secure, and maintainable web applications.
• Shape architectural direction, solution architectures, API standards, scalability standards, and security standards.
• Guide application integrations across internal and external systems and support modernization of legacy applications.
• Lead and mentor engineering teams while guiding Agile delivery, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines and support application monitoring, alerting, technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledgebase materials.
• Support critical production issues through on-call coverage and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Ability to design scalable, secure, and maintainable systems and translate business requirements into technical designs.
• Advanced Node.js development skills with experience in Express.js and/or Next.js.
• Strong experience with microservices architecture, full-stack application design, and modern JavaScript technologies including JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Experience with React, Angular, or Vue; responsive design; HTML; CSS; and user interface frameworks.
• Strong API development experience with REST, GraphQL, SOAP, Webhooks, and system integrations.
• Experience with SQL databases, including MS SQL and Oracle, and NoSQL technologies including MongoDB and Redis.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools, and containerization using Docker, Podman, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with messaging and queueing systems, and experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk, Nagios, or similar platforms.
• Strong Agile and Scrum experience, analytical and debugging abilities, problem-solving skills, communication skills, technical documentation experience, and experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree and experience architecting and delivering scalable full-stack applications, leading integrations, establishing CI/CD pipelines, supporting monitoring and alerting, and migrating legacy applications to modern full-stack platforms.

Nice to have

• Experience with Atlassian tools, including JIRA and Confluence.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Microsoft Copilot.
• Experience supporting large-scale application modernization initiatives.
• RabbitMQ experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct-hire employment.
• Onsite work in New York, NY.
• Hands-on technical leadership with active involvement in problem-solving and production support.