Remote Tech Lead

Summary

The job is for a Tech Lead focusing on backend development to help scale the team and product, solve technical challenges, and ensure high quality production code. The candidate should have experience in building and designing high-scale systems, excellent technical skills, great communication, leadership abilities, and a clear obsession with shipping and high engineering velocity.

Requirements

• Experience building and designing high scale and high availability systems, including a deep understanding of infrastructure, databases, and common backend patterns
• Excellent technical, architectural (system design), diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
• Have a great “taste” in software and API design, with great instincts for what great looks like
• Be a clear communicator that is great to work with
• Have strong leadership and organizational abilities
• Be obsessed with shipping and high engineering velocity, while maintaining high stability
• Having previously worked as a tech lead, engineering manager, or a similar role
• Experience with the technologies we use in the backend and infrastructure such as: Rust, Postgres, Redis, and Terraform

Responsibilities

• Be a strong individual contributor, deploying high quality production code in a fast-paced environment
• Build new features while providing a great developer experience for our customers
• Help the team scale the product while ensuring stability and high availability
• Help the team with technical challenges and successful completion of tasks
• Help organize the team, planning sprints, delegating tasks, and organizing goals, while maintaining a high team velocity as the team increases in size

Preferred Qualifications

• Rust experience (if lacking, an ability to quickly ramp up is required)
• Frontend experience

Benefits

• All roles are full-time - no students or part-time
• Applicable timezones: UTC-8 to UTC+3