Backend Team Lead

The company is building the future of cybersecurity for the AI era. We’re growing fast and looking for a Backend Team Lead to join our Engineering team and play a key role in driving technical execution, engineering excellence, and the delivery of scalable, high-quality products.

• Own Team Execution: Lead the team across multiple workstreams, ensuring high-quality delivery every sprint.
• Drive Sprint Planning: Own prioritization, capacity planning, and alignment on sprint goals.
• Cross-Team Coordination: Serve as the bridge between your team and others, removing blockers and managing dependencies.
• Develop the Team: Boost velocity and capabilities through coaching, feedback, and gap identification.
• Own Technical Design: Lead design of scalable, reliable, maintainable features built to strong engineering standards.
• Stay Hands-On: Lead by example in high-scale, cloud-based development (Node.js, AWS, MongoDB).
• Drive Code Quality: Conduct code reviews and promote best practices in architecture and performance.
• Partner with Product: Work with PMs to shape features from concept through release.
• Engage with Customers: Join technical sessions to address requirements, challenges, and integrations.
• Own Your Domain: Act as technical lead for your domain, liaising with Customer Success.
• Shape Product Enhancements: Drive technical decisions on improvements and new capabilities.

• 6+ years of hands-on software development experience
• 3–5 years of experience in a technical leadership or Team Lead role
• Deep hands-on expertise with Node.js — must-have
• Strong experience with AWS — must-have
• Experience with React — preferred
• Experience with Python — advantage
• Experience working with MongoDB
• Strong experience designing and building scalable backend systems
• Proven experience managing technical execution across multiple workstreams
• Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, reliability, and clean code principles
• Experience delivering end-to-end features and projects from design through production
• Experience working in a fast-paced product environment
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to make technical decisions independently
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience leading or collaborating with global or distributed teams
• Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience participating in customer-facing technical discussions
• AI-First Mindset: Software development and engineering productivity, Developer experience, Automated testing, Technical prototyping, Development workflows and internal processes, System performance and scalability