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Lead Backend Engineer- Fully Remote

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Your Tasks Will Include:

  • Lead and mentor a team of mid/senior backend engineers (4–5), including 1:1s, feedback, and performance management
  • Translate product and business goals into clear technical roadmaps, sprint plans, and backend priorities
  • Own the backend architecture and technical vision for mobile-first, consumer-facing apps used by tens of thousands of daily active users
  • Drive and oversee implementation of new features for our mobile apps, working closely with iOS/Android, Product, Data, DevOps and Trust & Safety teams
  • Take key architectural decisions around scalability, performance, reliability, data flows, and infrastructure on AWS
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, improve API speed and reliability, and design effective caching and database strategies
  • Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, coding standards, code review practices, and deployment/CI pipelines
  • Create and maintain clear technical documentation and design specs for backend systems and major initiatives
  • Handle prioritisation and trade-offs in a fast-moving environment with changing quarterly priorities
  • Be hands-on with coding and code reviews, especially for complex or high-impact areas, and step in during critical production incidents

Your Tasks Will Include:

  • 8+ years of professional backend development experience in production environments and most recent experience in leading a backend teams
  • Proven experience owning backend architecture for a mobile-first, consumer-facing app
  • Strong hands-on expertise with any OOP language - Ruby, Java, PHP, Python, C# (must be willing to work with Ruby on Rails)
  • Experience building and scaling high-traffic systems (Over 10k+ daily active users) with a focus on performance and reliability
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems, relational databases, caching, and performance optimization
  • Practical experience working in the cloud (preferably AWS) and collaborating closely with DevOps / infrastructure engineers
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical topics and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders (e.g. CEO, Product)
  • Background in a startup or fast-moving product companies, comfortable with changing priorities and making pragmatic trade-offs
  • Strong product mindset, user-focused, impact-driven, and able to connect technical decisions to business outcomes
  • Comfortable taking ownership, making decisions, and leading in a fully remote, distributed team environment

Our Client Offers:

  • Fully Remote Role with flexible working hours (core collaboration typically in European daytime)
  • 30k USD bonuses (seasonal + EOY, dependant on individual and company performance)
  • Work on high-impact, high-scale mobile products (millions of downloads) in a profitable, growing startup
  • Strong engineering culture: open-minded, low-ego, direct communication, and high ownership
  • Access to company-provided AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor company accounts) to boost your productivity
  • 27 days of paid vacation (15 days of personal leave + 12 days of public holidays following your local country calendar)
  • Company paid team trips, 1–2 times per year to attractive locations (e.g. Thailand, Bali) including flights and accommodation
  • Opportunity to shape technical direction, processes, and standards for the entire backend function
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