Lead Developer - Sounding Board

Who We Are:

BTS is a consultancy specializing in the people side of strategy. For over three decades we’ve been designing powerful experiences that have a profound and lasting impact on businesses and their people. We help the world’s leading companies turn strategy into results.

Our next-generation approach combines deep business knowledge with transformational development to help people and their company evolve together. We equip leaders for tomorrow, inspire new ways of thinking, and build critical capabilities through targeted interventions, including working sessions, workshops, offsites, and more.

Sounding Board, a BTS company, is first-of-its-kind coaching enablement platform for large enterprises offering both the technology infrastructure and the coach network to enable and scale coaching practices organization-wide. With a vision to democratize access to coaching across all levels of an organization, Sounding Board combines a SaaS, cloud-based management platform with a high quality, managed network of global coaches that can deliver remote, virtual 1:1, and group coaching at scale. Our customers include large-scale enterprise Fortune 500 companies. When companies partner with us, they see a resulting increase in promotion, retention, and in critical leadership skills in their managers.

We are seeking a Senior/Lead Developer to join our engineering team working on the Sounding Board Leadership Development Platform, a comprehensive learning and development platform. Our platform serves organizations with features including user management, engagement tracking, program management, analytics, and integrations with various third-party services.

Tech Stack Overview

Our platform is built on a modern, scalable architecture using:

Backend Technologies:

• Node.js 20.8.0 with TypeScript
• GraphQL with Apollo Server for API development
• MongoDB with Mongoose ODM for data persistence
• Express.js for web server framework
• Redis for caching and session management
• Socket.io for real-time communications
• tRPC for type-safe API development
• Passport.js for authentication (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect)
• BullMQ for job queue management
• Google Cloud Platform services (Pub/Sub, Storage)

Frontend Technologies:

• React 17 with TypeScript
• Material-UI (MUI) for component library
• Webpack for bundling and build optimization
• Svelte/SvelteKit for admin interface
• Tailwind CSS for styling
• Storybook for component development
• Jest and Playwright for testing

Development & DevOps:

• Yarn Workspaces for monorepo management
• Turbo for build system optimization
• Docker and Docker Compose for containerization
• GitHub Actions for CI/CD
• ESLint and Prettier for code quality
• Husky for git hooks

Key Integrations:

• Slack for notifications and bot functionality
• Cronofy for calendar integration
• Degreed for learning management
• Google APIs for various services
• Mailgun for email services
• LaunchDarkly for feature flags

What You’ll Do at BTS:

Technical Leadership:

• Lead technical architecture decisions and provide guidance on best practices
• Mentor junior developers and conduct code reviews
• Drive technical excellence and maintain high code quality standards
• Collaborate with product teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions

Full-Stack Development:

• Develop and maintain features across the entire stack (frontend, backend, database)
• Work with GraphQL APIs, REST endpoints, and real-time WebSocket connections
• Implement authentication and authorization systems
• Optimize application performance and database queries

System Architecture:

• Design and implement scalable, maintainable solutions
• Work with MongoDB schemas and migrations
• Implement caching strategies using Redis