Tech Lead - Backend - IIT

About Goodscore

Goodscore is a fast-growing fintech startup on a mission to simplify credit and empower individuals with smarter financial insights and products. We’re building innovative technology that helps users understand, manage, and improve their credit health while offering them access to tailored financial solutions.

If you’re passionate about building scalable systems, mentoring teams, and solving complex engineering challenges, we’d love to have you on board.

Goodscore Raises Series A - Super excited to share that we’ve just closed our Series A with Peak XV Partners 🎉 — a huge milestone for us at Goodscore!

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced Team Lead – Backend to lead and scale our backend engineering team. In this role, you will drive technical design and implementation across multiple charters, mentor engineers, and ensure delivery of robust, high-performance systems that power our fintech platform.

You will work closely with product, design, and data teams to architect backend solutions that are reliable, secure, and efficient.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of backend engineers, driving design, development, and delivery of high-quality software.
• Manage one or more backend charters independently end-to-end — from planning to deployment.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance, code reviews, and mentorship to team members.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, frontend engineers, and data teams to deliver scalable and well-integrated solutions.
• Define best practices for coding, testing, and performance optimization.
• Contribute to system architecture discussions and long-term technical vision.
• Ensure reliability, availability, and scalability of backend systems.

Skills & Experience Required

Why Join Us