Technical Lead in Architect Team in Namecheap

Location: Ukraine (Remote)

Your expertise:

3+ years of hands-on JavaScript experience (commercial or personal projects) with fundamental understanding of JavaScript runtimes and TypeScript language.

Proficiency in:

• OOP and functional programming concepts
• Asynchronous programming and event-driven architecture
• API and front-end development (Node.js, React.js)
• CI / CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• Containers (Docker), Microservices, and event-driven architecture
• Cloud services (AWS, Azure or GCP)

Experience in:

• Debugging complex systems, with tools like NewRelic and tracing tools
• Developing tools and libraries consumed by internal teams
• Monitoring and performance tuning
• System Ownership: Comfortable owning internal tools, ensuring they’re maintained, documented, and optimized for team productivity

Will definitely be a plus: 

• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and infrastructure management tools like Terraform
• Experience with TypeScript, WebSockets, and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ)

What’s in it for you? 

• Opportunity to deal with top-notch technologies and approaches in a world-leader product company with millions of customers
• Opportunity to make a difference for online privacy, freedom of speech, and net neutrality
• Decent market rate compensation depending on experience and skills
• Developed corporate culture: no micromanagement, culture based on principles of truth, trust, and transparency
• “You build it, you own it” mentality in most contexts
• Support of personal and professional development
  • coverage of costs of external trainings, conferences, professional literature
  • support of experienced colleagues
  • in-house events and trainings
  • regular knowledge sharing in teams
  • English classes and speaking clubs
• Life-balance support
  • truly flexible schedule, no time-tracking at all
  • 25 working days of vacation
  • 5 days of paid sick leave per month (if necessary) without providing a medical certificate
  • generous maternity leave program
• Professionally strong environment, friendly and open atmosphere, ability to influence the product development and recognition for it

You will be involved into: 

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Architectural Direction: Lead the design and oversight of the various libraries and services based on Node.js and React.js (the biggest scope), while guiding integration with other systems. Ensure solutions align with our business goals and tech standards
• Technology Roadmap: Own the platform’s technology roadmap, identifying key tools, frameworks, and improvements that will enhance performance, scalability, and reliability across all internal systems as well as improve developers experience and productivity

Team Leadership

• Mentorship & Growth: Buildand mentor a high-performing team. Lead hiring, provide feedback, and support continuous learning
• Team Performance: Evaluate team performance regularly and support team members in achieving personal and professional growth
• Team Processes and Technology Advocacy: Develop and implement essential processes that enhance system transparency, both internally and externally. Foster strong connections and understanding between our team and other development groups within the organization, ensuring continuous improvement and empathetic collaboration across teams

Project Leadership

• End-to-End Project Ownership: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of projects, ensuring they meet scope, budget, and timeline requirements
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the go-to technical voice for stakeholders. Translate complex technical ideas into actionable business terms, and manage expectations on deliverables

Hands-On Development & Innovation

• Lead by Example: Write and review code as needed, especially in Node.js and React.js. Step in to troubleshoot complex issues or accelerate project timelines
• Research & Innovate: Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends. Experiment with new tools and frameworks to assess their impact on our goals

Quality & Risk Management

• Quality Assurance: Work closely with the QA team to integrate testing and quality processes throughout the development lifecycle
• Risk Mitigation: Identify technical and project risks early and create action plans to address them proactively

Collaboration & Culture Building

• Team Collaboration: Foster a collaborative, inclusive environment where feedback and ideas are openly shared. Work closely with Solution Architects, DevOps, and other technical teams to ensure seamless integration
• Culture of Excellence: Promote a results-driven, problem-solving culture focused on accountability, continuous improvement, and innovation

Agile Leadership

• Agile Practices: Champion agile methodologies and lead regular ceremonies such as retrospectives and sprint planning. Ensure the team consistently iterates and improves its processes

About the company and project:

Namecheap was founded in 2000 on the idea that all people deserve value-priced domains delivered through stellar service. Today, Namecheap is a leading ICANN-accredited domain name registrar and web hosting company with over 13 million customers and 17 million domains under management — and we’re just getting started.

Our culture is built on the values that we live every day: the way we work, the way we collaborate with our global network of colleagues and the way we relentlessly innovate solutions that meet the emerging needs of our customers.

As the Technical Leader in Architect Team at Namecheap, you will drive the design and delivery of system-level tools and software that power our internal teams. Your focus will be to provide practical, scalable solutions that empower development teams to move faster and more efficiently. This hands-on leadership role blends technical expertise with strategic direction, shaping our platform's architecture to meet current and future business goals.

You'll be working primarily in the JavaScript ecosystem, but also supporting tools built with .NET, Python, and PHP. A key example of our work is the Isomorphic Layout Composer, an enterprise-grade micro front-ends framework: ILC on GitHub.