The Backend Technical Lead is the most senior backend engineer in the team, responsible for driving architectural decisions, ensuring backend system quality, and acting as a technical partner to Product and Engineering stakeholders. This role combines hands-on backend development with strong leadership and mentorship.
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 improve 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
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.
Leadership & Collaboration Competencies
Strong ownership mindset and ability to lead by example.
Excellent communication skills across cross-functional teams.
Ability to balance hands-on development with architectural oversight.
Proactive in identifying risks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities.
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: In person
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