Engineering Team Lead

Ecoplant is a fast-growing, award-winning AI-based SaaS company on a mission to create a greener, smarter industrial world. We help industrial plants reduce energy waste, CO₂ emissions, and unplanned downtime by bringing automation, visibility, and intelligence to compressed air systems. Our innovative platform modernizes outdated infrastructure, enabling leading manufacturers to cut costs, optimize performance, and operate more efficiently than ever.

We are looking for a highly passionate, skilled, and experienced Team Lead to join our growing team.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and develop a growing team of engineers, including mentoring, performance management, and technical coaching
• Remain strongly hands-on, contributing directly to backend architecture and development
• Act as the technical authority for core backend services and platform architecture
• Design and evolve distributed microservices powering data-driven and AI-based systems
• Drive architectural decisions around scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability
• Collaborate closely with Research teams to productionize ML models and data-driven insights
• Lead development of AI-powered internal tools delivering real-time commercial insights
• Guide frontend infrastructure evolution while maintaining strong backend standards
• Raise the overall engineering bar and promote a culture of ownership and accountability

What you’ll need:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 1–2+ years leading engineers as a Team Lead or Technical Lead with people responsibility
• Proven ownership of production backend systems
• Strong experience with Node.js and TypeScript (NestJS preferred)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with messaging or streaming systems (Kafka, SQS, Redis Streams, etc.)
• Experience with cloud environments (GCP preferred, AWS a plus)
• Strong system design capabilities and architectural thinking
• Working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks (React preferred)

Why us:

• Backend ownership in a real-world, data-intensive AI platform
• Close collaboration with Research and Product teams
• High architectural impact in a rapidly scaling company
• Opportunity to shape both systems and people
• Hybrid work environment and a collaborative, high-trust culture

Join us in transformingthe way we power production for a brighter future!