Backend Team Lead

What we’re looking for:

We’re looking for an experienced and highly motivated Backend Team Lead to join our growing team. This role is perfect for someone who combines strong technical expertise with leadership skills, and is excited about shaping the future of cybersecurity through innovation and collaboration. If you are passionate about leading people, building scalable data pipelines, and driving excellence, we’d love to meet you!

What you’ll do:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Drive the design, development, and delivery of a high-performance data pipeline.
• Provide technical guidance and make architectural decisions to ensure scalable and robust solutions.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, DevOps, and other teams to deliver end-to-end features.
• Conduct code reviews and promote best practices for clean, maintainable, and secure code.
• Stay ahead of industry trends and introduce new technologies, methodologies, and tools where relevant.
• Balance hands-on coding with team leadership and project management responsibilities.
  
  

• Proven experience as a backend development team lead, with several years as a senior developer.
• Strong proficiency in Python. Experience with Pydantic and FastAPI is an advantage.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases such as ArangoDB and MongoDB.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Temporal.io is a plus.
• Solid understanding of cybersecurity principles and best practices.
• Demonstrated leadership skills: mentoring engineers, driving processes, and managing delivery.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance technical depth with people leadership.
• Strong communication skills, able to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.