Lead Engineer - Backend

As a lead engineer you would be responsible for

• Designingscalablearchitecturewith the best choice of tech, responsible for all the services/functionalities that the team develops while ensuring quality of the team's code and/or infrastructure standards.
• Hands-on development, often taking on the more complicated tasks. Ensures solution is production ready, deployable, scalable and resilient.
• Planning and delivering of work in the team in addition to their own work. Promotes a learning culture through mentoring and coaching.
• Ensures product observabilityis in place for reliability. Fosters a culture of observability across teams and helps use operational data to improve stability and performance of their domains. Drives monitoring work on their team based on the organization's monitoring philosophy. Is aware of the operational data for their teams domain and uses it as a basis for driving changes to the team's services to achieve stability and performance improvements.
• Responsible for ensuring thesecurityof the product and fostering a security first mindset across teams. Highly skilled with applying and implementing security concepts such as identifying vulnerabilities in software, creating logic to detect malicious behavior, and analyzing network or host artifacts.
• Able to articulate a technical strategy, value of technology, and impact to the business.
• Provides guidance and cultivates solutions for the most complex problems across teams.
• Encourages team to adopt a growth mindset. Educates team about how competitors and technology companies evolve their technologies.
• Guides the team in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design decisions that minimise the cost of future changes. Evaluates options, defines pros and cons by working with the team, and identifies the best option.
• Utilized coding companion tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to enhance both individual and team efficiency in day-to-day engineering tasks.