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As the Backend Technical Lead at our company, you will play a pivotal role as the most senior backend engineer in the team. Your primary responsibilities will involve driving architectural decisions, ensuring backend system quality, and serving as a technical partner to Product and Engineering stakeholders. Your role will require a combination of hands-on backend development skills along with strong leadership and mentorship capabilities. Key Responsibilities: - Lead backend development efforts, ensuring alignment with engineering standards and product goals. - Translate product requirements into clear technical designs and execution plans. - Design, build, and maintain scalable Django REST APIs. - Oversee background task processing using Celery or equivalent systems. - Drive backend architecture decisions to enhance scalability, reliability, and performance. - Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and best practices. - Collaborate with Product, Frontend, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver end-to-end features. - Enforce strong engineering practices including TDD, linting, and test coverage. - Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize systems using observability tools. - Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across applications, databases, and task queues. Technical Skills Required: - Strong expertise in Python 3 and Django REST Framework. - Deep experience with PostgreSQL in production environments. - Hands-on experience with Celery or similar asynchronous task processing systems. - Strong testing discipline using pytest, coverage, and linting tools. - Experience with Docker, Docker Compose, and CI/CD pipelines. - Experience with integrating AWS services into the app. - Familiarity with observability tools such as Sentry, Datadog, and Grafana. Experience & Qualifications: - 4+ years of professional backend development experience. - Prior experience acting as a technical lead or mentoring engineers. - Proven track record of building and maintaining production-grade backend systems. In this role, you will be expected to demonstrate strong ownership mindset, excellent communication skills across cross-functional teams, and the ability to balance hands-on development with architectural oversight. Additionally, your proactive approach in identifying risks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities will be crucial for success. (Job Type: Full-time, Work Location: In person) As the Backend Technical Lead at our company, you will play a pivotal role as the most senior backend engineer in the team. Your primary responsibilities will involve driving architectural decisions, ensuring backend system quality, and serving as a technical partner to Product and Engineering stakeholders. Your role will require a combination of hands-on backend development skills along with strong leadership and mentorship capabilities. Key Responsibilities: - Lead backend development efforts, ensuring alignment with engineering standards and product goals. - Translate product requirements into clear technical designs and execution plans. - Design, build, and maintain scalable Django REST APIs. - Oversee background task processing using Celery or equivalent systems. - Drive backend architecture decisions to enhance scalability, reliability, and performance. - Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and best practices. - Collaborate with Product, Frontend, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver end-to-end features. - Enforce strong engineering practices including TDD, linting, and test coverage. - Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize systems using observability tools. - Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across applications, databases, and task queues. Technical Skills Required: - Strong expertise in Python 3 and Django REST Framework. - Deep experience with PostgreSQL in production environments. - Hands-on experience with Celery or similar asynchronous task processing systems. - Strong testing discipline using pytest, coverage, and linting tools. - Experience with Docker, Docker Compose, and CI/CD pipelines. - Experience with integrating AWS services into the app. - Familiarity with observability tools such as Sentry, Datadog, and Grafana. Experience & Qualifications: - 4+ years of professional backend development experience. - Prior experience acting as a technical lead or mentoring engineers. - Proven track record of building and maintaining production-grade backend systems. In this role, you will be expected to demonstrate strong ownership mindset, excellent communication skills across cross-functional teams, and the ability to balance hands-on development with architectural oversight. Additionally, your proactive approach in identifying risks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities will be crucial for success. (Job Type: Full-time, Work Location: In person)
