Technical Leader (Fullstack Backend focused)

Accountabilities

• • Lead, mentor, and support a team of engineers while establishing strong engineering practices, coding standards, and a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Partner with Product, Frontend, DevOps, and other teams to define and deliver scalable technical solutions aligned with business objectives.
  • Architect, develop, and maintain high-performing backend services and APIs using TypeScript, Node.js, and modern backend frameworks.
  • Design systems for high availability, strong performance, security, scalability, and zero-downtime deployment.
  • Own backend technical direction and roadmap decisions, balancing immediate delivery requirements with long-term maintainability and scalability.
  • Strengthen system reliability through effective testing, monitoring, logging, observability, incident management, and performance optimization.
  • Leverage AI tools, automation, and emerging technologies to improve developer productivity, engineering workflows, and end-user experiences.
  • Evaluate and introduce new technologies where they can meaningfully improve the platform, development process, or product.
  • Translate business and product requirements into robust backend architectures and serve as a bridge between engineering and product stakeholders.

  Requirements

  • 6+ years of backend development experience, including at least 4 years in a technical leadership or lead engineering role.
  • Strong proficiency with TypeScript, Node.js, and backend frameworks such as NestJS or Express.js.
  • Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable APIs, backend services, and distributed systems.
  • Strong knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, data modeling, and query optimization.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, along with containerization, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Solid understanding of event-driven architectures, messaging systems, and asynchronous processing; experience with technologies such as Apache Kafka is an advantage.
  • Demonstrated ability to incorporate AI tools and workflows into software development to improve speed, efficiency, and quality.
  • Experience leading or mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, establishing technical standards, and setting engineering direction.
  • Good understanding of frontend concepts and the ability to collaborate effectively with frontend engineers.
  • Strong knowledge of software security, testing strategies, observability, reliability, and performance optimization.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead technical discussions across functions.
  • Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment where priorities can evolve quickly.
  • Strong ownership mentality, sound judgment, curiosity, and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

  Benefits

  • Fully remote work environment.
  • Full-time opportunity within a fast-growing fintech organization.
  • High-impact role with significant influence over backend architecture, technical strategy, and engineering practices.
  • Opportunity to work on financial technology and Forex-related solutions with real-world impact.
  • Exposure to modern cloud technologies, AI-assisted development, automation, and emerging engineering practices.
  • Collaborative environment with close interaction across Engineering, Product, Frontend, and DevOps.
  • Opportunities to mentor engineers and shape a high-performing technical culture.
  • Professional growth through ownership of complex technical challenges and strategic initiatives.