Backend Team Lead

Welcome to Nanit, the high-growth baby tech company that is changing the way parents view their babies' wellness through the world's most advanced baby monitor and parenting products. In 2016, the Nanit baby monitor revolutionized the industry with computer-vision and machine-learning capabilities that helped parents understand their baby's sleep patterns and allowed them to achieve better sleep quality. Now, the company has become the leader in the connected parenting space, with an incredible customer base of highly-engaged parents who look to Nanit as a source of information and expertise on their parenting journey.

As a Backend Platform Team Leader at our company, you will take the helm of our engineering efforts focused on backend platform development, driving the performance and reliability of our systems. This pivotal role involves overseeing the platform team's operation, managing and mentoring 2-3 backend engineers, and ensuring the efficient delivery and execution of tasks within the team. If you have a deep passion for backend technologies, possess a burgeoning talent for leadership, and excel at navigating complex engineering challenges with 0-2 years of managerial experience, you are the ideal candidate for this role.

Your Impact:

• Enhance Backend Systems: Employ cutting-edge technologies to scale and improve backend systems supporting a wide range of applications, specifically focusing on platform development.
• Team Leadership: Direct and nurture a dedicated platform team, ensuring alignment with company goals and efficient task delivery. Manage a small team of 2-3 backend engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Strategic Planning: Spearhead the planning and execution of key platform projects, advocating for innovative solutions and improvements to enhance our backend capabilities.
• Technical Mastery: Maintain and evolve a diverse technical environment, emphasizing backend technologies and platform tools, ensuring our infrastructure meets current and future demands.
• Collaborative Leadership: Collaborate with other teams to ensure seamless integration and maintenance of backend services, managing critical platform components with agility and foresight.
  
  

• Professional Experience: Minimum of 6 years in backend development, with 0-2 years in a managerial or team lead role.
• Technical Proficiency:
• Web Services: Strong background in designing, developing, and maintaining web services, focusing on platform scalability, security, and efficiency.
• Monitoring: Proficiency in monitoring tools such as Grafana and Prometheus, adept in overseeing high-performance systems.
• AWS: Solid experience with AWS services relevant to platform development, including but not limited to EC2, EKS, VPC, RDS, S3, and Elasticache.
• Container Orchestration: Deep understanding of Kubernetes, showcasing a high level of expertise in managing containerized applications.
• Leadership and Management:
• Emerging Leadership: Demonstrated ability to inspire and mentor a small team, cultivating an environment of growth and learning.
• Strategic Vision: Ability to drive the technical and strategic vision for the platform, making impactful decisions and encouraging innovation.
• Agile Methodology: Experience in leading teams using Agile methodologies, adept at navigating a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
  

• An opportunity to lead and define the direction of our backend platform, impacting our company's growth and innovation.
• A commitment to fostering an inclusive work environment and a culture that promotes continuous learning and development.
• A balanced approach to productivity, collaboration, and well-being.
• Ample opportunities for career progression in a forward-thinking organization.