{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"dcd2b72bdafeddab3876af5e","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/dcd2b72bdafeddab3876af5e","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/dcd2b72bdafeddab3876af5e","title":"Tech Lead, Digital API (Node.js) - TX","description":"The Role\nDigital API team is looking for a hands-on Tech Lead with deep Node.js/TypeScript expertise to design and deliver domain-driven microservices for customer-facing digital experiences. You’ll own greenfield builds from zero-to-production, lead engineers by example (coding ~70% of the time), and drive cross-team triage while keeping leadership proactively informed.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign & build domain-driven, event-aware microservices in Node.js/TypeScript (Express/Fastify/NestJS) with clean, testable code.\nArchitect greenfield systems: service boundaries, data models, REST APIs, event streams, CI/CD, observability, and runtime topology.\nSet API standards: versioning, OpenAPI/Swagger, pagination, error contracts, resiliency patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers).\nOwn production readiness: SLOs, dashboards, alerting, runbooks; lead incident triage/bridge calls and drive blameless RCAs.\nCollaborate across teams (web, mobile, data, security, ops) to unblock work, sequence dependencies, and land integrated releases.\nCommunicate proactively with leadership: crisp status, risk/mitigation, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.\nRaise the bar: code reviews, engineering best practices, mentoring, pair programming, tech talks, and documentation.\nThink two steps ahead: anticipate edge cases, scaling, operability, and cost; recommend pragmatic sequencing and trade-offs.\nTech Stack You’ll Work With\nLanguages/Frameworks: Node.js, TypeScript, Express/Fastify/NestJS\nAPIs: REST, OpenAPI/Swagger, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT\nData: PostgreSQL/MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB), Redis cache\nMessaging/Streaming: Kafka/RabbitMQ (sagas, outbox, idempotency)\nCloud & Platform: One major cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, API Gateway/Ingress, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)\nCI/CD & Observability: GitHub Actions/Jenkins, ELK/Dynatrace, feature flags, OpenTelemetry, Datadog/New Relic/Prometheus, log aggregation\nWhat You’ll Bring\n8+ years backend engineering (or equivalent impact), 3+ years technical leadership on product teams.\nExpert-level Node.js/TypeScript with proven delivery of domain-driven microservices at scale.\nStrong grasp of DDD (entities/aggregates/bounded contexts), event-driven architectures, and microservice patterns (saga, outbox, circuit breaker).\nDesigned secure, resilient public APIs used by web/mobile clients; deep understanding of authN/authZ (OAuth2/OIDC), secrets, and TLS.\nProduction experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native deployment, CI/CD , and observability (metrics, traces, logs, SLOs).\nDemonstrated success leading triage/incident response and driving RCAs to lasting improvements.\nOutstanding communication—able to simplify complex trade-offs, tell a delivery story, and keep partners aligned.\nBias for action: you go the extra mile , anticipate the “next two steps,” and ship high-quality software.\nNice to Have\nExperience in telecom (ordering, provisioning, billing, identity) or large consumer digital platforms.\nAPI gateways (Apigee/Kong), rate limiting/quotas, multi-tenant patterns.\nPerformance tuning, capacity planning, and cost optimization in cloud environments.\nCompensation, Benefits and Duration\nMinimum Compensation: USD 54,000\nMaximum Compensation: USD 189,000\nCompensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.\nMedical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.\nThis position is available for independent contractors\nNo applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post","company":"Photon","rawCompany":"photon","city":"Texas City","state":"TX","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-23T08:55:05.101Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1254.00","title":"Web Developers","slug":"web-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Tech Lead, Digital API (Node.js) - TX","description":"The Role\nDigital API team is looking for a hands-on Tech Lead with deep Node.js/TypeScript expertise to design and deliver domain-driven microservices for customer-facing digital experiences. You’ll own greenfield builds from zero-to-production, lead engineers by example (coding ~70% of the time), and drive cross-team triage while keeping leadership proactively informed.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign & build domain-driven, event-aware microservices in Node.js/TypeScript (Express/Fastify/NestJS) with clean, testable code.\nArchitect greenfield systems: service boundaries, data models, REST APIs, event streams, CI/CD, observability, and runtime topology.\nSet API standards: versioning, OpenAPI/Swagger, pagination, error contracts, resiliency patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers).\nOwn production readiness: SLOs, dashboards, alerting, runbooks; lead incident triage/bridge calls and drive blameless RCAs.\nCollaborate across teams (web, mobile, data, security, ops) to unblock work, sequence dependencies, and land integrated releases.\nCommunicate proactively with leadership: crisp status, risk/mitigation, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.\nRaise the bar: code reviews, engineering best practices, mentoring, pair programming, tech talks, and documentation.\nThink two steps ahead: anticipate edge cases, scaling, operability, and cost; recommend pragmatic sequencing and trade-offs.\nTech Stack You’ll Work With\nLanguages/Frameworks: Node.js, TypeScript, Express/Fastify/NestJS\nAPIs: REST, OpenAPI/Swagger, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT\nData: PostgreSQL/MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB), Redis cache\nMessaging/Streaming: Kafka/RabbitMQ (sagas, outbox, idempotency)\nCloud & Platform: One major cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, API Gateway/Ingress, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)\nCI/CD & Observability: GitHub Actions/Jenkins, ELK/Dynatrace, feature flags, OpenTelemetry, Datadog/New Relic/Prometheus, log aggregation\nWhat You’ll Bring\n8+ years backend engineering (or equivalent impact), 3+ years technical leadership on product teams.\nExpert-level Node.js/TypeScript with proven delivery of domain-driven microservices at scale.\nStrong grasp of DDD (entities/aggregates/bounded contexts), event-driven architectures, and microservice patterns (saga, outbox, circuit breaker).\nDesigned secure, resilient public APIs used by web/mobile clients; deep understanding of authN/authZ (OAuth2/OIDC), secrets, and TLS.\nProduction experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native deployment, CI/CD , and observability (metrics, traces, logs, SLOs).\nDemonstrated success leading triage/incident response and driving RCAs to lasting improvements.\nOutstanding communication—able to simplify complex trade-offs, tell a delivery story, and keep partners aligned.\nBias for action: you go the extra mile , anticipate the “next two steps,” and ship high-quality software.\nNice to Have\nExperience in telecom (ordering, provisioning, billing, identity) or large consumer digital platforms.\nAPI gateways (Apigee/Kong), rate limiting/quotas, multi-tenant patterns.\nPerformance tuning, capacity planning, and cost optimization in cloud environments.\nCompensation, Benefits and Duration\nMinimum Compensation: USD 54,000\nMaximum Compensation: USD 189,000\nCompensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. 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