Tech Lead - Backend

Responsibilities

• Extensive experience working on Backend development with JVM languages (preference for Kotlin).
• Lead design, planning, and estimation discussions within the team and with partners from across the department, along with business stakeholders.
• Conduct high-level system analysis and architecture design, ensuring alignment with business requirements, technical standards, and the overall architecture blueprint.
• Facilitate requirement gathering and translate complex business needs into technical specifications.
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of project and technical documentation.
• Identify and mitigate risks throughout the SDLC, proposing solutions to complex problems.
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Oversee production support processes, collaborating with operations and business stakeholders.
• Analyze issue patterns to drive improvements.
• Guide documentation efforts, maintain on-call rotations, and lead post-mortems.
• Lead efforts to resolve root causes and enhance performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership and serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers, analysts, and grads.
  

Requirements

• You bring experience across API integration, databases, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies.
• You enjoy being hands-on and are happy to lead from a technical perspective, mentoring others and helping upscale teams.
• You have exceptional communication and collaboration skills.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in backend technologies, especially Java/Kotlin and unit testing practices.
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects.
• Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and (micro)services with frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Experience building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (preferably Azure).
• Knowledge of modern software architecture patterns. A desire to teach others and share knowledge.
• A team player mindset where you want to coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns.
• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions.
• Copes effectively with complexity and change.
• Learn technologies and patterns quickly. Comfortable in uncharted waters.
• Ability to see the long term by choosing suitable technologies and approaches based on the end goals.
• High standards. We are looking for people who expect personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best.
• Experience using both relational databases (e. g. Postgres).
• Education: Bachelor's degree(B. Tech), preferably from a grade A college.