Claud Platform Team Leader

Company Description Questar Auto Technologies is a global leader in Predictive Vehicle Health Management (PVHM) for commercial fleets, delivering data-driven solutions that optimize vehicle performance and maintenance. Through its 360° platform, Questar combines historical vehicle data, real-time diagnostics, and predictive insights into a unified, actionable system. Using advanced AI, high-fidelity telematics, and deep automotive domain expertise, the company enables fleets to move from reactive repairs to proactive, efficient operations. Questar supports hundreds of thousands of vehicles worldwide, helping customers reduce downtime, lower maintenance costs, extend vehicle lifespan, and improve overall fleet efficiency. Team members at Questar contribute to technology that gives fleets clear visibility into the past, present, and future health of every vehicle.

About the role You'll lead the team that owns our cloud infrastructure and the backend services running on it. This is a hands-on leadership role: roughly [60/40] split between managing people and staying close to the architecture. You'll be accountable for how our microservices are designed, deployed, scaled, and kept alive in production.

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend and infrastructure engineers, including 1:1s, goal setting, performance reviews, and career development
• Own the architecture of our AWS environment and the microservices platform running on it, from design through rollout
• Break down large initiatives into workstreams, delegate ownership, and hold the team to delivery commitments without micromanaging
• Run agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retros, backlog grooming) and work with product and other engineering leads on roadmap and prioritization
• Set and enforce engineering standards: code review culture, testing, observability, incident response, on-call rotation
• Drive cost, performance, and reliability improvements across the platform
• Participate in hiring: interviewing, calibration, onboarding

Requirements

• 8+ years of industry experience
• 5+ years in a people-management or team-lead role, with a track record of leading engineering teams through full delivery cycles.
• 3+ years of production backend development in TypeScript / Node.js. Server-side work: APIs, services, background processing, data flows. Frontend or full-stack-leaning-frontend experience does not substitute for this.
• Proven experience designing and leading AWS solutions at scale, specifically for distributed microservices architectures. You should be able to walk us through a system you architected end to end and defend the trade-offs.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of core AWS services: [ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, API Gateway, VPC networking, IAM]
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes or ECS)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipeline ownership
• Strong grounding in agile methodologies and the judgment to know when to bend them
• Experience owning production systems: monitoring, alerting, on-call, post-incident reviews
• Excellent written and spoken English

Nice to have

• Experience with Kafka / event-driven architecture at scale
• Multi-region or multi-account AWS setups
• Database performance tuning at scale (Postgres, DynamoDB)
• Security and compliance exposure (SOC 2, ISO 27001)