- We are looking for Backend engineering Lead who will be responsible for the overall backend ecosystem across the organization, combining people leadership with ownership of backend architecture, standards, and delivery quality
- This role ensures that backend development and architecture is consistent, scalable, and aligned with product, while growing backend engineers and enabling teams to deliver effectively
- The Backend Lead operates in close alignment with the Head of Engineering and Chapter Leads, ensuring all key decisions and initiatives follow the broader engineering vision
- Define and drive the backend vision across teams (architecture, design systems, tooling, standards)
- Ensure consistency in how backend applications are built and maintained
- Own cross-team backend topics
- Make and enforce key technical decisions when alignment is needed
- Lead and support backend engineers, ensuring efficient and impactful delivery of initiatives while driving team engagement, efficiency, and growth




- Raise the bar of backend engineering through running regular 1:1s and performance check-ins, coaching, and clear development support
- Identify skill gaps and drive training, and mentoring initiatives to close skill gaps, improve team capability, and continuously strengthen ways of working
- Own and drive key people processes for the team (in alignment with Tech Leadership), including hiring, onboarding, offboarding, performance reviews, and compensation cycles, ensuring consistency and quality of execution
- Build a strong backend community (guilds, knowledge sharing, standards)
- Own awareness of department KPIs/goals and drive recommendations for continuous improvement in team performance and execution
- Ensure backend delivery is predictable, scalable, and high quality across teams
- Identify and resolve systemic delivery or quality issues
- Support teams to avoid risky complex backend initiatives
- Align backend work with frontend/data/platform constraints and o

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