Lead Software Engineer Backend & Cloud Infrastructure

You are a Senior Backend Lead with hands-on expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS, responsible for leading backend development efforts for scalable, high-performance applications. Your role involves guiding a team of developers, ensuring the quality and reliability of the backend infrastructure, and collaborating cross-functionally to drive key project outcomes. Your key responsibilities include leading the design and development of robust, scalable backend systems using Node.js and TypeScript, architecting and integrating RESTful and GraphQL APIs, developing cloud-native applications leveraging AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, and DynamoDB. You will guide and mentor junior team members, troubleshoot, debug, and optimize performance for backend components, ensure adherence to software engineering standards, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver business-critical solutions. To excel in this role, you must have 6+ years of backend development experience with a leadership track record, deep expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and the AWS ecosystem, strong API development experience (REST & GraphQL), experience with cloud-native architectures and services, excellent communication and team mentoring skills, and a proven ability to work independently and solve complex problems. Nice to have for this position is prior experience working in fast-paced startup environments and exposure to DevOps practices or serverless architecture patterns.,