Lead Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems

Description :

As a Lead Engineer, youll help architect and evolve this highly extensible platform. Youll drive cross-cutting initiatives, mentor engineers, and build backend components that other teams, partners, and customers rely on to build sophisticated scheduling systems on top of our infrastructure.

Requirements :

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2 years in technical leadership roles
• Deep experience designing platforms, frameworks, or extensible APIs used by other developers
• Hands-on expertise in distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and scalable microservices
• Experience balancing developer flexibility with system guardrails strong grasp of "configuration over code" and platform product thinking
• Strong system design, data modeling, and observability practices especially in performance-sensitive, high-throughput environments
• Comfortable making architectural trade-offs and driving technical direction in ambiguous spaces

Responsibilities :

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