Backend Team Lead

mavens (formerly Storemaven) is a data technology company that aims to empower people with the tools, skills, and confidence they need to understand the world at their fingertips. Our goal is to tackle all the complex and unsolved areas of mobile publishing with innovative tools, accessible data, and scalable processes.

We’re a group of authentic, curious, intelligent, and playful problem-solvers who enjoy succeeding together. Founded in 2015 and operating as a bootstrap startup for seven years, mavens (previously Storemaven) was acquired in 2022 by mega mobile publisher Zynga/TakeTwo Inc to bring our maveness to the next level.

We are looking for a talented and experienced Backend team leader. You will play a vital role in building and enhancing our critical data acquisition and serving processes across a wide range of our company products.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a Backend Engineering team and enjoy the way.
• Define the work plan hand in hand with the product managers.
• Determine goals and objectives at the beginning of each development cycle until it is accomplished.
• Own all data acquisition and collection services - the core of our prodcts.
• Employing innovative techniques and out of the box thinking for cracking non trivial technological challenges.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain robust backend systems and services.
• Ensure the security, reliability, and scalability of data acquisition and serving systems.
• Collaborate with product teams to influence data-driven feature development and improvements.
  
  

• Proven experience in software engineering with a strong track record of leadership.
• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Developer,maintaining large-scale systems.
• 3+ years of experience with Python.
• Experience with data acquisition techniques and technologies at high scale.
• Solid understanding of database concepts and experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience in building scalable and distributed systems.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
  
  

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their data services.
• Experience with Microservice & Docker / K8s platforms.
• Knowledge of data privacy and security best practices.