Backend Engineering Lead

As a Backend Engineering Lead at our seasoned UI UX product design and engineering company, you will play a crucial role in owning the delivery of scalable, high-performance backend systems. Your responsibilities will include technical leadership, hands-on development, team management, collaboration, security, and performance. Here's a breakdown of what you can expect: **Key Responsibilities:** - **Technical Leadership:** - Own the architecture and delivery of backend services built on modern JS frameworks. - Translate business and product requirements into scalable systems with clean code and robust APIs. - Lead tech planning, estimations, and sprint breakdowns with product and design teams. - Champion code quality, version control, automated testing, and CI/CD best practices. - Guide team members through reviews, pair programming, and architectural discussions. - **Hands-On Development:** - Build scalable backend services using NodeJS/Express/NestJS. - Design and manage relational (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (Redis/MongoDB) data models. - Develop RESTful and GraphQL APIs, and integrate third-party services as needed. - Work with modern dev tooling: Docker, Git, Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, etc. - Deploy and manage services on AWS/GCP/Firebase (Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, etc.) - **Team Management & Collaboration:** - Manage 35 engineers across backend and DevOps verticals. - Coordinate sprint planning, daily standups, and code delivery via JIRA. - Collaborate with QA and DevOps to ensure smooth releases and minimal bugs in production. - Promote documentation, reusable modules, and internal tooling to improve velocity. - **Security & Performance:** - Enforce secure coding practices, input validation, and session/token management. - Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks at the application and database level. - Advocate for monitoring, observability, and post-deployment diagnostics. **Must-Have Skills:** - 5-7 years of experience in JavaScript/TypeScript backend development. - Deep expertise with Node.js (Express/NestJS) and API design patterns. - Strong in system architecture, data modeling, and asynchronous processing. - Hands-on with Git, Docker, and CI/CD workflows. - Excellent communicator with the ability to interface with product managers, designers, and QA. - Exposure to Agile rituals, backlog grooming, and stakeholder alignment. **Nice-to-have:** - Experience working in FinTech, HealthTech, or high-scale SaaS environments. - Familiarity with AI/ML & Data Engineering. If you are a results-driven professional with a passion for modern software development practices, this is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects in a fast-paced, Agile-driven environment. You will also benefit from competitive compensation, performance bonuses, collaboration with bright minds in software engineering, continuous learning opportunities, and flexible work arrangements. Join our innovative team and be a part of redefining the future of technology. Apply now!,