Software Architect - Backend (NodeJS) with Frontend (Angular)

Software Architect (Backend NodeJS with Angular)

• Job Description Summary

Wolters Kluwer - DXG is looking for an accomplished hands-on Architect with a lead by design approach to problem-solving. This role will be reporting to the Development Manager and will be working closely with both internal & external integration teams.

The LCC platform - short for Lippincott Clinical Context forms a key part of the Medical Education/Medical Practice division of the Health solutions offering from WK - delivering a an interactive experience for health professionals and students. You will be joining a team of highly skilled engineers that are continuing to shape this platform into an enterprise scale application. The candidate will also be responsible to mentor developers who are part of this high performing scrum team, while shaping and defining industry best practices for development engineering, process, code reviews  and coding standards.

This role entails

• Hands-on development skills
• A deep knowledge and understanding of application design and architecture principles
• Awareness and application of the latest in secure coding practices
• Experience with performance optimization
• Ability to demonstrate an in depth understanding of the SDLC engineering and release cycles in their day to day work

• Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Interpret and understand contextual requirements
• Out of the box creative thinker - offering solutions for day to day issues
• Design, debug implementations of complex software solutions using NodeJS
• Translate requirements to solution design
• Analyze, plan and estimate simple to complex development tasks
• Take ownership for a business feature from its technical design, through development and all the way through to release
• Perform code review and refactoring with other developers
• Navigate through the SDLC (including but not limited to) - Coding, Unit testing, Integration testing
• Working closely with QA partners, Coverage/assistance during UAT, Production support/debugging issues 
• Plan, prioritize, and effectively complete tasks in order to meet critical project deadlines. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of relevant development experience
• 8 or more years of industry experience developing web-based applications using NodeJS; NestJS preferred
• Must have demonstrated use of architecture design patterns in the last 3 projects
• Must have a working understanding of SDLC
• Must have knowledge of agile/scrum/lean development practices and associated tools
• Must have strong analytical thinking, writing, problem solving and excellent communication skills
• Must have hands-on experience with container technologies such as Docker
• Must have strong hands on experience in cloud native application development (AWS)
• Ability to document technical specifications, design artifacts and organize code
• Ability to interpret and identify patterns from APM tools and reporting dashboards
• Experience working and contributing to CI/CD and DevOps projects
• Experience integrating/communicating between multiple systems/applications
• Experience and understanding of search technologies and caching strategies
• Experience and understanding of Git Source control, and Gitflow branching methodology with emphasis on working with strategies that relate to the master/develop/feature/release branches
• Experience working with SPAs such as Angular, React
• Experience working with JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket is preferred
• Working knowledge of JSON, XML, Schema and database models
• Working knowledge of building and consuming third-party APIs and familiarity with tools such as Postman 

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Experience Level

Senior Level