Lead Backend Engineer - Distributed Services

Responsibilities :

- You will design and develop large-scale distributed services.

- You will analyse and improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of the platform as a whole.

- You will act as the primary owner of one or more components while driving innovation in your area of ownership.

- You will proactively research and evaluate new tools, technologies, and techniques to improve the value of the system.

- You will work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex development

issues.

- You will work independently and handle dependencies with very minimal oversight.

- You will take initiative in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the back-end.

- You will help identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks, and work on design/architect improvements.

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of leading large-scale projects.

- Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, high-quality systems

- Exceptional communication skills.

- Proven track record of making good technical judgment.

- Excellent problem-solving skills.

- Highly organised.

- Experience working in a complex, service-oriented software development environment.

- Experience in shipping successful projects in an Agile environment.