You will lead a strong team of five senior engineers and take ownership of both the people and the technology. This role combines team management with deep technical leadership: developing engineers, setting the technical vision, leading design and architecture decisions, and staying close enough to the code to step in when needed.
What Will You Do?
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of five experienced backend engineers.
Own the teams technical vision, priorities, execution, and long-term direction.
Lead the design and implementation of architectural changes that keep our platform reliable at massive scale.
Drive complex, cross-team projects and influence technical decisions beyond your immediate team.
Lead production incidents and post-mortems, and continuously raise the bar for reliability and operational excellence.
Identify risks and problems before they impact production, and build the processes and infrastructure needed to prevent them.
Stay close to the technology through design discussions, code reviews, debugging, and hands-on contribution when needed.
Use data to understand how customers interact with the platform and turn emerging use cases into new product capabilities.
Help lead significant technical initiatives, including the evolution from GCP toward a Multi-Cloud architecture.
Work with modern AI tools such as Cursor and Claude Code as a core part of the development workflow, while maintaining deep technical understanding and high-quality standards.
What Should You Bring to the Table?
At least 2 years of experience managing an engineering team.
A strong backend engineering background with experience building complex, high-scale production systems.
Proven ability to lead technical vision, System Design, and architecture discussions.
Experience leading meaningful projects end-to-end and working across multiple teams.
Strong production ownership, including leading incidents, post-mortems, and reliability improvements.
A hands-on mindset and the ability to step into code, debugging, and code reviews when needed.
Experience mentoring and developing senior engineers.
Experience with Cloud infrastructure and services.
Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability technologies.
A strong testing mindset, including automated testing and production monitoring.
Experience with Go – an advantage.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex decisions clearly and simply.
High ownership, curiosity, and a proactive, can-do approach.
