Tech Lead (Backend)

About the role

You're accountable for whether the solution is right, whether it's correct, and whether it's still right in 18 to 24 months. This role fails when a design leaks money quietly, not loudly. You write and review code daily, alongside pairing on hard problems and mentoring the Senior Engineers around you.

What you'll do

• Design for money correctness by default: idempotency, reconciliation, rounding, proration, audit trail
• Name and quantify technical debt, and negotiate real bandwidth to address it, rather than silently absorbing it or refactoring unilaterally
• Make the engineers around you measurably better: pair on hard problems, review their work, and be able to point to someone who grew because of you
• Push back on a bad technical decision made by someone more senior than you, when you're right, and make it stick
• Work design and product into your technical plans as you build them, not around them after the fact

What you need

• 6–8 yrs of experience
• Data structures
• Reconciliation
• Any graduate

Good to have

• System design
• Git
• AWS
• Kafka
• Docker
• Kubernetes