Lead Software Engineer, Backend

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Requirements:

• Experience in designing, developing, and operating complex web-based distributed systems across multiple teams.
• Experience in managing end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery to optimization.
• Most Lead Engineers have 8+ years of professional experience.
• Hands-on experience with TDD, clean code and architecture principles, and effective code reviews.
• Good understanding of domain modeling, persistence layer design, and RESTful API design.
• Good understanding of distributed systems design including failure design, eventual consistency, and asynchronous communication.
• Understanding of performance analysis and optimization.
• Familiarity with AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Ability to coach and mentor senior engineers.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to a full life-cycle of the product, including problem discovery, prototyping, design, implementation, and measuring adoption.
• Build services using Java/Node.js (Express, Nest.js) on top of Kubernetes/AWS/GCP infrastructure.
• Build developer-friendly RESTful APIs.
• Design and connect to our persistence layer (PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch).
• Collaborate with other experience and platform teams.