Backend Team Lead

Requirements:
2+ years of experience leading backend or platform teams, including ownership of roadmaps and cross-team collaboration.
5+ years of hands-on backend software development experience, building production-grade systems at scale.
Strong experience designing and maintaining distributed systems, robust APIs, and data-driven services.
Deep proficiency in Python and a strong working knowledge of TypeScript.
Extensive hands-on experience designing and managing both SQL and NoSQL databases. Specific experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis is highly preferred.
Nice to have:
Solid experience designing and implementing asynchronous communication using message brokers and event streaming platforms (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka).
Hands-on experience implementing logging, monitoring, and alerting systems (e.g., Elastic Stack / ELK, Prometheus, Grafana) to ensure the reliability and health of complex, distributed architectures.
Experience deploying, scaling, and managing applications on cloud platforms like AWS or GCP.
Hands-on experience with popular web frameworks like NestJS, Django, or FastAPI.
Basic working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, NextJS) to occasionally build or maintain internal dashboards and tools.