Lead Backend Engineer

About the Role :

We are seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to take ownership of the systems that power our AI-driven platform. This role goes beyond traditional backend developmentyoull architect and build highly scalable, data-intensive systems and deliver end-to-end solutions that integrate tightly with product, design, and data science teams.

Youll lead the technical foundation of backend engineering : shaping our platform architecture, evolving our data infrastructure, and optimizing APIs and pipelines to serve personalized experiences, analytics, and real-time AI capabilities. Were looking for a strong individual contributor and technical leader who thrives in a fast-paced, startup environment with ownership, experimentation, and impact as core values.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of backend features from data ingestion to customer-facing APIs and dashboards.
• Define and evolve the architecture of our backend systems to ensure scalability, resilience, and performance.
• Build core infrastructure to support AI / ML-powered features, including recommendation engines, content pipelines, feature stores, and serving layers.
• Develop and document scalable RESTful or GraphQL APIs that power web and mobile experiences.
• Build real-time and batch data processing pipelines, integrate with streaming platforms (Kafka, etc.), and manage structured and unstructured data stores (SQL / NoSQL).
• Continuously monitor and improve the performance and cost-efficiency of our backend systems.
• Partner with product managers, designers, data scientists, and frontend engineers to deliver elegant solutions to complex business problems.
• Mentor team members, set engineering best practices, conduct code reviews, and help grow a high-performance backend team.
• Work in short iterations with a mindset for experimentation, shipping fast, and learning quickly.

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