This hands on leadership role includes ownership of backend design, scalability, reliability, and technical excellence, while collaborating closely with product, DevOps, and R&D teams.
The ideal candidate combines strong system level thinking with deep cloud and distributed systems expertise.
Responsibilities:
• Partner with the solution architect to design scalable, secure, high availability backend cloud services.
• Own and evolve the platform’s cloud native architecture, including microservices, APIs, data pipelines, and distributed systems.
• Serve as the technical authority for backend and cloud related decisions across R&D.
• Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, and video/algorithm teams to ensure alignment with business and technical goals.
• Define and promote best practices for system design, code quality, testing, documentation, and observability.
• Conduct design and code reviews; identify risks and address performance and scalability challenges.
• Research, evaluate, and introduce new technologies to enhance system capabilities.
Requirements:
• At least 6+ years of experience in backend development for SaaS product
• Experience as a technical lead, architect, or senior backend engineer
• Strong expertise in distributed systems and scalable architectures
• Hands on experience with AWS
• Strong programming skills in Node.js and Typescript
• Experience with microservices, REST/gRPC APIs, and event driven architectures
• Knowledge of SQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Experience integrating backend systems with cloud native services.
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with real time or high throughput systems – a plus
• Background in media, broadcast, or video centric platforms – a plus
