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. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role where you will combine strong backend engineering expertise with technical leadership and people development.

You will work closely with Engineering, Product, Customer Success, and customers , owning execution across multiple workstreams and helping shape technical decisions from initial design through production. We’re looking for someone who is technically strong, hands-on, AI-driven, and passionate about developing people while building scalable and reliable systems.

What You'll do

Leadership & Sprint Execution

• 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.

Technical Excellence & Design

• 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.

Customer-Facing & Domain Ownership

• 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.

What We’re Looking For

• 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

We value engineers who continuously look for practical ways to use AI and modern tools to help their teams work faster and more effectively.