we are looking for a Backend Team Lead.
As a Backend Team Leader , you will lead a team of backend and MLOps engineers that owns the systems behind our AI-driven product features. Your team works closest to our AI group – the Algorithms and Data teams – and owns the engineering side of turning models into reliable production capabilities.
Concretely, that means owning real backend architecture – the services and APIs that carry AI-driven capabilities into the product, the data collection pipelines that feed model training, the storage and query layers that hold model outputs and the insights we derive from them, and the validation pipelines that let us trust production flows. You will make the core design decisions on service boundaries, data models, event flows, and scale and cost tradeoffs, in a domain where both the data volume and the correctness bar are high. You do not need to arrive as an ML expert. You do need to be the kind of engineer who walks into an unfamiliar domain, learns it properly, and starts making good decisions in it.
As a Backend Team Leader , you will lead a team of backend and MLOps engineers that owns the systems behind our AI-driven product features. Your team works closest to our AI group – the Algorithms and Data teams – and owns the engineering side of turning models into reliable production capabilities.
Concretely, that means owning real backend architecture – the services and APIs that carry AI-driven capabilities into the product, the data collection pipelines that feed model training, the storage and query layers that hold model outputs and the insights we derive from them, and the validation pipelines that let us trust production flows. You will make the core design decisions on service boundaries, data models, event flows, and scale and cost tradeoffs, in a domain where both the data volume and the correctness bar are high. You do not need to arrive as an ML expert. You do need to be the kind of engineer who walks into an unfamiliar domain, learns it properly, and starts making good decisions in it.
Requirements:
8+ years in backend engineering, with proven people leadership as a manager or team lead, delivering in fast-paced environments without micromanaging
Strong production experience with web services/APIs on AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3, Kubernetes, and Kafka (including failure handling)
Experience with data pipelines (batch/streaming) and monitoring/observability tools – dashboards, logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, and on-call
An advantage: familiarity with the ML model lifecycle, Python or exposure to Python-based research teams, big data infrastructure, Computer Vision/Deep Learning, or hands-on use of AI coding tools
Ability to inspire, mentor, and grow engineers, with strong self-learning skills in unfamiliar domains
Clear communicator across technical and non-technical partners, balancing company priorities with sustainable delivery and team satisfaction
8+ years in backend engineering, with proven people leadership as a manager or team lead, delivering in fast-paced environments without micromanaging
Strong production experience with web services/APIs on AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3, Kubernetes, and Kafka (including failure handling)
Experience with data pipelines (batch/streaming) and monitoring/observability tools – dashboards, logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, and on-call
An advantage: familiarity with the ML model lifecycle, Python or exposure to Python-based research teams, big data infrastructure, Computer Vision/Deep Learning, or hands-on use of AI coding tools
Ability to inspire, mentor, and grow engineers, with strong self-learning skills in unfamiliar domains
Clear communicator across technical and non-technical partners, balancing company priorities with sustainable delivery and team satisfaction
This position is open to all candidates.
