Backend Team Lead

Description

We're looking for a skilled and motivated Backend Team Lead to join our engineering group.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll help shape the architecture of our products, mentor developers, and collaborate across departments to build scalable, reliable, and innovative services.

Requirements

The position:

A day in the life:

• Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers, developing a revolutionary product that makes a real-world impact
• Tackle fascinating technological challenges alongside brilliant minds
• Collaborate closely with research, product, frontend, and DevOps teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Drive architecture decisions and contribute to the long-term technical roadmap.

You bring to the table:

• Backend development experience, including experience in a leadership or senior-level role.
• Solid understanding of system design, data modeling, and APIs.
• Experience with microservices-based system development in one or more languages such as C++, RUST, Go, Python, Java, or Node.js.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containers and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Passion for mentoring, team collaboration, and code quality.
• Strong problem-solving skills and clear communication.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Rust or interest in working with it in production environments.
• Background in Machine Learning
• Background in performance-critical or high-concurrency systems.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.