Lead Engineer - Social Planner - Full stack

8+ years of full-stack engineering experience with significant backend/system design exposure. Deep expertise in distributed systems and event-driven architecture. Strong experience with asynchronous job processing and background workers. Solid understanding of both relational and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, ClickHouse preferred). Proven ability to build scalable, multi-tenant SaaS applications. Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (Vue.js, React, or Angular). Ability to design and optimize interactive dashboards and data-heavy UIs. Excellent understanding of software design patterns, API design, and microservices. Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, TDD, and automated testing frameworks. Strong performance tuning, profiling, and optimization skills (especially Node.js). Experience with caching, rate limiting, and queuing systems. Proven experience integrating third-party APIs (preferably social media APIs). Strong knowledge of Elasticsearch for search, indexing, and analytics. Experience using Redis for caching, session storage, or background queues. Experience leading engineering teams or acting as a technical lead. Strong communication skills with the ability to work cross-functionally. Ability to make clear architectural trade-offs and guide team decision-making.

Lead architecture, design, and development of the Social Planner & Media Optimization platforms. Own end-to-end reliability, performance, and scalability of distributed systems. Design and maintain fault-tolerant pipelines for posting, media processing, analytics, and comment workflows. Drive modernization efforts: event-driven patterns, improved data models, and microservice decomposition. Establish a long-term technical roadmap and make impactful architectural decisions. Mentor, guide, and support backend, frontend, and full-stack engineers. Conduct meaningful code reviews and enforce engineering best practices. Collaborate with Product, Design, Data, and Support teams to deliver high-impact features. Ensure high standards in code quality and documentation. Improve posting reliability, delivery accuracy, retries, and error handling. Build and optimize dashboards for analytics, scheduling workflows, and comment moderation. Enhance media processing systems: compression, transcoding, storage, and CDN usage. Troubleshoot complex production issues and lead root cause analyses. Optimize performance across databases, search indexes, queues, and backend services. Ensure platform security, privacy, and multi-tenant isolation best practices.