Lead Backend Developer

Shape the Architecture : Help define the technical vision, system boundaries, and architecture for services owned by the team you join.

Lead by Example : Be a hands-on technical leader who contributes directly to high-impact work through design, implementation, code review, debugging, and production support.

Help build new features : Design and implement patterns that make it easy to add new features.

Mentor & Guide Engineers : Provide day-to-day technical guidance, unblock engineers, review designs and code, and help raise the technical bar for the team.

Plan & Deliver : Partner with the Engineering Manager and Product to turn ambiguous goals into clear technical plans, milestones, and incremental delivery paths.

Partner Across the Platform : Collaborate closely with partner engineering teams to ensure that we integrate cleanly with the work other teams are doing.

Drive Operational Excellence : Ensure that integration services operate reliably at scale as they set up, schedule and monitor messages in the 3rd party partner systems. Use observability, metrics, traces, logs, alerts, and postmortems to continuously improve system quality.

Influence Technical Direction Broadly : Represent the integrations team in architecture discussions and help create alignment around technical patterns, dependencies, and platform interfaces.

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and operating backend or platform systems in production (we use Python and other programming languages).

Significant experience designing and operating distributed services.

Strong architectural judgment around stateful services, 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.