Lead Backend Developer

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and operating backend or platform systems in production
• Significant experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven, or high-scale backend systems
• Strong architectural judgment around stateful services, real-time or near-real-time decisioning, asynchronous processing, system reliability, and production operations
• Hands‑on technical leadership experience: you are comfortable being the go‑to person for unblocking, reviewing, mentoring, and leading complex technical initiatives end‑to‑end
• Experience translating ambiguous product goals into pragmatic technical designs and incremental execution plans
• Familiarity with systems that process high‑volume event data, such as event stream processing, behavioral analytics, pub/sub systems, workflow systems, rule engines, or decis...