Role
As a Backend Tech Lead, your responsibilities will include:
Mentoring and guiding backend engineers to ensure high-quality code and effective development processes.
System design and architecture: Designing scalable, efficient, and secure backend systems, including APIs and data storage solutions, using technologies like Python, MySQL, Redis and Elasticsearch.
Tech stack evolution: Driving improvements in backend technologies, frameworks and development practices.
Cross-functional collaboration: Working closely with product managers, frontend teams and other stakeholders to ensure backend services meet business requirements and technical specifications.
Performance and scalability: Ensuring that our backend services are highly available, scalable and optimized for performance.
Cloud infrastructure: Overseeing cloud services and ensuring backend systems are seamlessly integrated with cloud platforms.
Code quality and best practices: Writing and maintaining clean, maintainable and well-documented code, while fostering a culture of code reviews, continuous improvement and adherence to best practices.
Technical leadership: Owning the technical direction of backend systems, making key architectural decisions and promoting industry best practices within the group.
Youre a seasoned Backend Tech Lead with a deep passion for backend systems and strong leadership qualities. Heres what were looking for:
Strong proficiency in Python: Extensive experience with Python and web frameworks in a production environment.
Leadership experience: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire engineering teams.
Backend expertise: Experience with building, deploying, and optimizing large-scale backend systems using databases like MySQL, and NoSQL systems (e.g., Redis, Elasticsearch).
Cloud platforms: Expertise in cloud infrastructure and services for backend service deployment and management.
Microservices and APIs: Solid experience designing and implementing backend APIs and microservices architectures that are modular, scalable and maintainable.
Containerization and orchestration: Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized applications and orchestration.
High-performance systems: Ability to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize backend systems to handle large-scale traffic with minimal latency.
Strong communication skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts.
