Required Infrastructure Team Lead
About the role
You'll lead the team that owns our cloud infrastructure and the backend services running on it. This is a hands-on leadership role: roughly [60/40] split between managing people and staying close to the architecture. You'll be accountable for how our microservices are designed, deployed, scaled, and kept alive in production.
What you'll do
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend and infrastructure engineers, including 1:1s, goal setting, performance reviews, and career development
Own the architecture of our AWS environment and the microservices platform running on it, from design through rollout
Break down large initiatives into workstreams, delegate ownership, and hold the team to delivery commitments without micromanaging
Run agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retros, backlog grooming) and work with product and other engineering leads on roadmap and prioritization
Set and enforce engineering standards: code review culture, testing, observability, incident response, on-call rotation
Drive cost, performance, and reliability improvements across the platform
Participate in hiring: interviewing, calibration, onboarding.
Requirements: 8+ years of industry experience
5+ years in a people-management or team-lead role, with a track record of leading engineering teams through full delivery cycles.
3+ years of production backend development in TypeScript / Node.js. Server-side work: APIs, services, background processing, data flows. Frontend or full-stack-leaning-frontend experience does not substitute for this.
Proven experience designing and leading AWS solutions at scale, specifically for distributed microservices architectures. You should be able to walk us through a system you architected end to end and defend the trade-offs.
Deep hands-on knowledge of core AWS services: [ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, API Gateway, VPC networking, IAM]
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes or ECS)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipeline ownership
Strong grounding in agile methodologies and the judgment to know when to bend them
Experience owning production systems: monitoring, alerting, on-call, post-incident reviews
Excellent written and spoken English
Nice to have
Experience with Kafka / event-driven architecture at scale
Multi-region or multi-account AWS setups
Database performance tuning at scale (Postgres, DynamoDB)
Security and compliance exposure (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
This position is open to all candidates.