About the job
We're looking for an Head of Technology : who can own the technical health and growth of our backend platform. You'll be part architect, part tech lead, part engineering manager. You won't just review code — you'll set the standard for how code is written, how systems are designed, and how the team thinks about quality, cost, and customer impact. This is not a senior IC role where you write code all day. And it's not a pure management role where you're in meetings all day. It's the balance between the two — the person who makes the team better while staying close enough to the code to make good decisionsWhat You'll Own
System Reliability & Upkeep
Own the health of a production multi-tenant Node.js/TypeScript backend serving real-time messaging traffic
Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortem culture
Identify and drive reduction of technical debt — proactively, not reactively
Ensure monitoring, alerting, and observability are in good shape (we use Current Relic, Sentry, Pino structured logging)




Work across multiple backend services and ensure they integrate reliably
Scalable, Quality Engineering
Design and review system architecture decisions — schema changes, service boundaries, async workflows (we use Temporal.io), queue design
Drive engineering standards: code review culture, PR quality, test coverage, error handling patterns
Establish and enforce engineering practices that let the team ship rapid without accumulating hidden risk
Evaluate build vs. buy decisions with a clear eye on long-term maintainability
Cost Consciousness
Maintain a clear understanding of infrastructure costs (AWS, third-party APIs, LLM usage, DB compute)
Actively flag cost anomalies and propose architectural or operational changes to address them
Balance engineering investment against business return — know when "valuable enough" is the right call
Team Standards & Culture
Set a high bar for code quality — not pedantry, but clarity, ma

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