Backend Team Lead

Lucidya is seeking a Backend Team Lead to oversee backend development efforts, ensuring performance, scalability, and maintainability. The ideal candidate has 8–10 years of backend engineering experience and a strong system design depth with people leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 8–10 years of backend engineering experience, including leading complex projects or acting as a de-facto technical lead
• 3+ years of experience in a leadership or team lead role.
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Bonus and profit sharing
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Mental health and wellness resources