Backend Lead
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Zeely Inc.AI Platform
Remote-first approach: work from anywhereFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Languages
- Upper-Intermediate English level or higher
- Experience
- 7+ years of commercial experience with Node.js; 3+ years in a Lead role; 3+ years with NestJS
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerNode.jsPostgreSQLRedisNest.jsMicroservices
Requirements
- 7+ years of commercial experience with Node.js
- 3+ years of experience in a Lead, Team Lead, or Engineering Manager role with direct people management responsibilities
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with NestJS
- Proven experience designing and evolving microservice architectures in production environments
- Deep expertise in PostgreSQL and Redis
- Experience working with ORMs such as Prisma and Drizzle
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, including EKS, RDS, SQS, S3, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch
- Strong Docker expertise
- Experience designing reliable, scalable, and observable distributed systems
- Solid understanding of on-call processes and incident management practices
- Upper-Intermediate English level or higher
Responsibilities
- Lead the Backend Department, driving team growth, planning, estimations, code reviews, mentoring, and engineers' performance management
- Define the architectural vision and ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the backend platform
- Develop and evolve our AI orchestration layer across multiple models and providers, optimizing generation quality, latency, and cost efficiency
- Own the evolution of the AI Gateway — the core platform component powering text, image, voice, avatar, and video generation
- Scale infrastructure and backend services to support product growth and increasing workloads
- Maintain high engineering standards in code quality, security, observability, and operational excellence
- Deliver strategic AI initiatives, including our proprietary RAG pipeline, MCP integrations, and AI agent capabilities
- Collaborate closely with Frontend, Mobile, QA, AI Engineering, and DevOps teams to achieve business goals
- Partner with the Principal Engineer on infrastructure capacity planning and cost optimization
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