Backend Team Lead

Lucidya is seeking a proactive and talented Backend Team Lead to spearhead backend development efforts, overseeing a skilled team of backend developers, and ensuring that our systems are designed for performance, scalability, and maintainability.

Requirements

• 8–10 years of backend engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Proven experience owning backend services or product areas end-to-end in a production SaaS environment
• Strong expertise in backend technologies such as Python and/or Ruby on Rails
• Deep understanding of system design, domain-driven design (DDD), event-driven architectures, and data modeling at scale
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and Redis
• Hands-on experience designing for scalability, reliability, security, and performance
• Experience defining and managing API contracts and service integration patterns
• Familiarity with release strategies such as feature flags, canary deployments, and phased rollouts
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure)
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems
• People leadership experience with responsibility for delivery, mentoring, and team development
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, and delivery functions