Lead Backend Software Engineer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Lead Backend Software Engineer (Product API).

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the Product API team
• Collaborate with product and client engineering teams to design and deliver GraphQL APIs
• Own and evolve critical product subsystems and drive improvements in API infrastructure

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience
• 2+ years of experience mentoring and providing technical guidance to engineers
• Strong experience designing and implementing GraphQL APIs at scale
• Proven track record of building efficient backend services using languages like NodeJS, Ruby, Golang, or Python
• Experience operating in cloud computing environments with modern deployment technologies