Technical Lead - Backend

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, build, and implementation of backend architecture to ensure the continued scale of the Collections. In the process, youll proactively identify and resolve any technical risk to the business.
• Collaborate with a dynamic, cross-functional team that includes Product Managers, Designers, and Engineering leaders across multiple orgs.
• Lead the team architecture of multiple teams like collections, version control, mock servers and scale it further for our upcoming growth.
• Identify and champion initiatives that drive architectural improvement and innovation.
• Be an integral contributor to roadmap planning, coordinating with all stakeholders to align our products with strategic goals.
• Offer technical leadership and mentorship to your fellow engineers, sharing best practices and elevating our collective expertise. Set and maintain a high bar for operational excellence.
• Take ownership of the maturation of existing systems by defining initiatives to improve availability, reliability, performance and maintainability.
• Rapidly construct functional prototypes to address both internal and external use-cases, driving our products evolution.

Candidate Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience writing production code and maintaining production systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures. Your knowledge of data management fundamentals and data storage principles is solid.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Passionate about mentoring and fostering a collaborative team environment.
• You can demystify technical concepts, effectively sharing knowledge with product managers, designers, support, and other engineers.
• An insatiable curiosity moves you to understand how things work and to constantly learn, absorb, and share new knowledge.
• Experience working on a developer product is a plus.
• Experience working with NodeJS and TypeScript is a plus