Lead Back-End Engineer
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Lead Back-End Engineer at BeatStars, responsible for technical leadership and elevating engineering quality. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and shaping product delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the technical lead for the Backend practice.
- Actively design, write, review, and ship production code — this is a hands-on leadership role.
- Define and document engineering standards, patterns, and best practices for your domain.
- Ensure code quality, scalability, and maintainability across the stack.
- Partner closely with Product to translate PRDs into clear technical execution plans.
- Audit existing systems and proactively identify opportunities to reduce tech debt.
- Write production-ready code regularly — this is a hands-on leadership role.
- Establish processes for enforcing standards through code reviews, CI/CD, and documentation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ship features predictably and reliably.
- Technical mentor to 3–5 engineers
Requirements:
- 5+ years at a company where you’ve shipped and supported production applications and systems serving large-scale user bases (hundreds of thousands to millions of users)
- Strong full-stack capabilities with deep passion and expertise in backend (BE) systems, APIs, and infrastructure
- Strong backend engineering experience with proficiency in Go (Golang) and a track record of building production-grade systems (5+ years preferred)
- Experience with object-oriented languages such as Java or C# is also valued (bonus)
- Deep familiarity with AWS, including services like ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, and overall cloud architecture.
- Experience building and working with GraphQL APIs, particularly in high-scale applications.
- Experience working on scalable, production-grade applications.
- Strong architectural instincts and understanding of system design.
- Proven ability to write clean, maintainable, high-quality code.
- Excellent communication skills — able to clearly explain technical decisions to both engineers and product partners.
- Experience collaborating daily with Product teams.
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred (Master’s or higher is a plus).
Benefits:
- Elite Tier Benefits Program - generous contributions towards medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
- 401(k) Matching
- FSA/HSA
- 20 PTO days (+5 Days at 4 years tenure) and routine sick days
- 10 Company Observed Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 8 weeks of parental leave paid at 100%
- Company-sponsored Short Term Disability and Basic Life Insurance
- Voluntary Benefits (LTD, Additional Life, and 401k)
- Flexible work hours
- $70/month tech reimbursement
- $30/month wellness reimbursement
- Virtual social events and a sense of community (even online)
- Global Recognition and Anniversary Program
- Plenty of opportunities while we grow and scale in a global environment
- Access to On-Demand Learning Platform
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