Backend Engineer Lead

Work with the Product and UX functions to craft innovative solutions to solve real customer pain points
Work with Engineering and DevOps functions to ensure system reliability, availability and scalability
Continuously champion high quality software engineering practices - from planning, implementation, test automation, documentation, code reviews, scaling, performance, metrics, logging, and monitoring - essentially the entire software development lifecycle
Evaluate existing and future cloud-based services to increase the efficiency of our team and/or business
Grow yourself and your team - mentorship enables everyone to learn and improve

Requirements
Leadership experience in managing team of software engineers, preferably backend
Proficient in any of the major programming or scripting languages (C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, preferably Node.js)
Experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL or similar relational databases (non-relational databases a plus)
Strong knowledge with agile software development processes for building distributed systems, Android applications, and/or e-commerce platforms
Self-driven to tackle challenges head-on and achieve goals
Able to troubleshoot complex systems problems, debug, and find root causes
Excel at working in small, dynamic, and fast-paced groups
Ability to communicate in written and spoken English
Curiosity and capacity to learn