Backend Lead

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 new 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