Lead technical direction and execution across the whole solution team and guide delivery from design to rollout.
Translate architecture into clear implementation decisions and enforce engineering discipline.
Implementation and evolution of backend services and using AI-augmented development.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to developers.
Own implementation quality, consistency, maintainability, and adherence to best practices.
Define and enforce engineering standards for observability, alerting, logging, tracing, resilience, rollback readiness, and production support.
Coordinate and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, issues resolution, and operational reporting using the current toolchain.
Work closely with product, QA, DevOps, mobile, and IoT engineers.
Troubleshoot complex issues, support incident resolution, and contribute to rollout and stabilization activities.
Help the team understand and manage the end-to-end system flow.
Act as the technical owner connecting architecture, engineering, and day-to-day delivery.
Lead backend engineering with strict operational targets for uptime, data integrity, quality, stability, test coverage, processing latency, release stability, security, and incident response.
Ensure infrastructure efficiency and backend cost awareness across AWS/GCP-dependent systems.
Maintain technical documentation, technical decision records, runbooks, onboarding materials, and secure SDLC practices.

Strong backend engineering background in production systems and prior experience in a technical leadership role.
Experience designing and operating microservices at scale in complex production environments.
Strong experience with event-driven systems; event sourcing experience is ideal.
Strong hands-on experience with backend Python lambda services development.
Strong experience with AWS serverless and distributed lambda based backend architectures and cost control.
Data modeling and persistence experience with PostgreSQL and document/NoSQL-style stores, blob storage.
Strong experience with CI/CD and modern software delivery practices, ensuring code quality and security.
Experience improving release stability, test coverage, and secure SDLC practices in a live product environment.
Experience in observability, production support, incident handling, debugging, and operational ownership in event-driven systems with emphasis on availability, stability and performance.
Ability to ensure performance, reliability, code coverage, and stability in production environments.
Testing experience in distributed systems unit testing, integration, contract, API, E2E, performance.
Experience working with third-party and internal integrations.
Strong communication skills in English.
Strong experience leading technical delivery in Agile teams.

Our wellbeing program includes medical benefits, gym support, and personalised fitness options for an active lifestyle, complemented by team events and the Healthy Habits Club.
Having a one-size-fits-one approach gives us the flexibility to define the work-life dynamic that works for us.
We believe that to maintain our overall health, we need to invest in our mental wellbeing just as much as we do in our physical health, social connections or in achieving work-life balance.
As a growing community in a hybrid environment, we want to ensure we remain connected not just by the great work we do every day but through our passions and interests.

Python Technical Lead

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