Backend Tech Lead

We're looking for a strong hands-on senior Backend Tech Lead with a passion for technical excellence and leadership.

The Tech Lead serves as the technical owner of one or more domains within the product - driving architecture, design, and code quality while mentoring developers and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

In this role, you'll lead by influence, not hierarchy - partnering closely with Product Leads and Domain Architects to ensure scalable, maintainable, and high-performing solutions. You'll balance hands-on technical work with guiding others, setting engineering standards, and shaping the technical roadmap.

The team is comprised of 3-5 seasoned and expert engineers, with a focus on code quality and data-driven decision-making. The team owns the most critical component of the product and holds our core intellectual property (IP).

Responsibilities:

• Own the technical quality, design, and roadmap for your domain(s).
• Drive engineering best practices through design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentoring.
• Collaborate with Product Leads on prioritization, backlog, and feasibility decisions.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and cross-domain alignment.
• As the technical authority in your team you'll be partnering with managers to shape hiring decisions, provide feedback/input for performance reviews, and contribute to other team-related decisions.
• Foster a culture of learning, innovation, and technical excellence.
• Tackle technical challenges - performance, fault-tolerance, and live production issues.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of C\C++ experience in a multi-threaded performance-critical programming
• Proven experience leading big features & designs from rough ideas to requirements up to development & production
• Experience working with public cloud (AWS, Azure) services and APIs
• Kernel space programming
• Virtualization
• Advanced project management skills including time and risk management as well as resource prioritization
• Development teams leadership experience