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Lead Backend Developer
Movable Ink. Define the technical vision, system boundaries, and architecture for team-owned services .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating scalable backend services, particularly in cloud environments like Google Cloud Platform. Possesses strong technical leadership skills, including mentoring and guiding teams through complex technical initiatives and integrations.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Python ProgrammingDistributed Services DesignTechnical LeadershipCloud Environment ExperienceIntegration Development
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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringBackend Systems DevelopmentArchitectural JudgmentAsynchronous ProcessingSystem ReliabilityIncident ResponseMonitoring and AlertingLogging and TracingTechnical DesignScalable Services
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationCollaborative ApproachMentoring
Tools & Technologies
Google Cloud PlatformThird-Party IntegrationsObservability Tools
Industry Keywords
System BoundariesTechnical VisionProduction OperationsIncremental DeliveryPlatform Integration
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPython
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Define the technical vision, system boundaries, and architecture for team-owned services
- Contribute directly through design, implementation, code review, debugging, and production support
- Design and implement patterns that facilitate new features
- Provide technical guidance, unblock engineers, review designs and code, and mentor team members
- Partner with Engineering Manager and Product to create technical plans, milestones, and incremental delivery paths
- Collaborate with partner engineering teams on platform integration
- Ensure integration services reliably operate at scale
- Set up, schedule, and monitor messages in third-party partner systems
- Use observability, metrics, traces, logs, alerts, and postmortems to improve system quality
- Represent the integrations team in architecture discussions and align technical patterns, dependencies, and platform interfaces
Requirements
What you’ll need- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong track record of building and operating backend or platform systems in production
- Experience with Python and other programming languages
- Significant experience designing and operating distributed services
- Strong architectural judgment around stateful services, asynchronous processing, system reliability, and production operations
- Hands-on technical leadership experience, including unblocking, reviewing, mentoring, and leading complex technical initiatives end-to-end
- Experience translating ambiguous product goals into pragmatic technical designs and incremental execution plans
- Familiarity with building 3rd party integrations
- Understanding of retries, idempotency, backoffs, rate limiting, partial failures, and external monitoring
- Experience building scalable backend services in cloud environments, preferably Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, incident response, and on-call responsibilities
- Clear communication skills and ability to translate technical tradeoffs into practical decisions
- Collaborative, product-minded approach to platform engineering
Benefits
Comp & perks- Additional bonus depending on the position ultimately offered
- Medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Other benefits