Backend Team Lead

About this role

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Backend Team Lead to architect and deliver robust, scalable systems while mentoring a team of developers. The ideal candidate will bridge strategic technical vision with practical execution, ensuring high-quality solutions aligned closely with business objectives and technology best practices. Responsibilities: ● Architect, design and deliver mission-critical modules end-to-end ● Write production-grade code daily; lead reviews, debugging, refactoring ● Embed TDD, CI/CD, design principles, and engineering best practices ● Develop high-performance, scalable backend systems that power global products ● Partner with Team Lead, PMs, QA, and product designers to define and execute features Criteria: ● 6+ years of backend development experience; 2+ years in technical leadership ● Experience in leading a team of atleast 3-4 engineers Preferred Skills: ● Extensive experience with Laravel, Node.js, Python, MySQL, MongoDB ● Passionate about writing clean, testable, modular code using design patterns ● Solid understanding and experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (ECS, Aurora, Lambda, S3, CloudFront etc), including scaling, and security best practices. ● Demonstrated expertise in building and maintaining systems using a microservices architecture, with an emphasis on scalability, reliability, and maintainability. ● Familiarity and practical experience with asynchronous communication between microservices using tools like Kafka etc, event-driven architectures, and messaging patterns at scale. ● Proven capability in designing inter-service communication protocols to optimize system performance, resilience, and latency under heavy loads. ● Startup exposure—comfortable with ambiguity, learning quickly, pivoting often ● Excellent communicator, collaborator, and mentor What we offer: ● An exceptional team: Our hiring bar is high and your colleagues are talented, motivated self-starters. ● A learning environment: We are a learning organization and as a team we will help you grow and encourage you to learn and upgrade your skills. ● Outstanding compensation: top talent deserves top pay and our salary, equity and benefits reflect this. ● Opportunities to grow: Encourages you to attend technical conferences and take company funded educational courses to advance your skills. ● An opportunity to be a key member of a well-capitalized leading brand in online real estate investing platform.

Key Responsibilities

• System architecture ownership
• Team technical mentorship
• Scalable backend development
• End-to-end module delivery
• Production code authorship

Requirements

Must have

• 6–11 years of experience