Role Summary

We are seeking a Backend Lead at the Senior Staff Engineer level to provide technical leadership across our backend architecture. This is a senior individual-contributor role with broad scope, responsible for shaping engineering strategy, driving cross-team technical initiatives, and setting the long-term architectural vision for backend systems.

Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the long-term technical architecture and strategy across multiple backend systems
- Act as a technical authority, resolving the most complex and ambiguous engineering challenges
- Drive cross-team initiatives involving platform scalability, reliability, and system-wide performance
- Establish engineering standards, governance, and best practices at an organisational level
- Provide technical mentorship to Staff Engineers, Tech Leads, and senior engineers across teams
- Partner with senior leadership (Engineering, Product, Security) to align technical strategy with business objectives
- Lead evaluation and adoption of recent technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns




- Anticipate scaling challenges and proactively design solutions ahead of business growth
- Lead root-cause analysis and resolution for major production incidents
- Influence hiring strategy and engineering culture at a senior level

Required Qualifications
- 7-10 + years of backend engineering experience, including 3+ years operating at a Staff level or above
- Demonstrated experience architecting large-scale, highly available distributed systems
- Deep expertise in backend languages, frameworks, and database technologies (SQL and NoSQL)
- Proven track record of leading cross-functional, multi-team technical initiatives
- Strong experience with cloud-native architectures, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation
- Exceptional system design skills, including experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
- Experience

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