Confidential client · posted 30 Oct 2026
Senior SDE
Own the technical health and growth of the backend platform, balancing architecture, technical leadership, engineering management, and hands-on technical decision-making. Set standards for code quality, system design, reliability, cost, and customer impact.
Skills required
- Backend Engineering Lead – Requirements
- Technical Expertise
- - 4–6 years of backend engineering experience.
- - Strong production skills in TypeScript/Node.js.
- - Deep understanding of multi-tenant SaaS architecture.
- - Hands-on experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL
- ORMs such as TypeORM
- and query optimization.
- - Experience with event-driven systems
- message queues
- and workflow engines.
- - Familiarity with AWS and cloud cost/performance monitoring.
- - Knowledge of real-time systems (WebSockets
- Socket.IO
- pub/sub).
- - Exposure to production LLM integrations
- RAG
- or AI features.
- - Experience with Temporal.io or similar orchestration tools.
- - Familiarity with WhatsApp Business API
- omnichannel messaging
- or e-commerce integrations.
- Engineering Leadership
- - Set coding standards
- architecture patterns
- and engineering principles.
- - Lead effective code reviews and support engineers through pair debugging
- design reviews
- and walkthroughs.
- - Balance delivery speed
- reliability
- and maintainability.
- - Make sound architectural trade-offs and manage technical debt.
- - Promote clear documentation
- ownership
- and dependable systems.
- Customer & Stakeholder Management
- - Prioritize reliability for systems serving real customers.
- - Explain technical issues
- risks