Role Overview:

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.

Main responsibilities:

1. Backend Ownership & Strategy
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.

2. Team Leadership & Capability Building
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.

3. Delivery & Quality Accountability
Ensure backend delivery is predictable, scalable, and high quality across teams.
Identify and resolve systemic delivery or qua

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