Technical Lead (Backend)

Who we want

technical heartbeat of Habit.

strong CS fundamentals

Your playground

• End-to-end technical ownership of Habit: architecture, infra, security, and engineering standards.
• Translate product goals into robust systems. Prioritise trade-offs, own delivery.
• Build the core backend platforms, and guide frontend (mobile/web) and data-science projects.
• Set up observability, CI/CD, and incident practices from day one.
• Mentor engineers while still writing code and setting the culture for reviews, design, and discipline.

Key responsibilities

• Define overall architecture and system design (APIs, data layer, auth, caching, jobs, analytics).
• Own the tech roadmap and balance feature delivery with technical debt.
• Set delivery discipline: reviews, testing, release processes, deployment safety.
• Build secure, scalable cloud infra (networking, secrets management, backups, DR).
• Implement monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and incident playbooks.
• Act as the escalation point for technical decisions and incidents.
• Hire, mentor, and grow a high-ownership engineering team.

Must-have skills

• Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, system design, concurrency, distributed systems.
• 7+ years building and scaling backend systems in production. Proven ownership of architecture and delivery.
• Expertise in one or more backend languages (Java preferred, Python/Kotlin ok). Ability to read across stacks.
• Strong relational DB experience: schema design, indexing, tuning, transactions.
• Cloud chops: GCP preferred, AWS/Azure/OCI fine. Containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD, infra-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and safe deployment patterns.
• Practical experience in observability: Prometheus, Grafana, tracing, incident management.
• Some exposure to data pipelines and ML integration points.
• Excellent communication: can interface smoothly with Product, Ops, and Leadership.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and building small engineering teams.

Why Habit?

At Habit, speed isn’t just about food. It’s how we build.

You’ll get end-to-end ownership, a clean slate to set the tech culture, and the chance to solve problems that impact thousands of hungry customers every day.

Think it. Build it. Ship it in 10.