Lead Software Engineer

About the Role We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable backend systems.
This is a hands-on leadership role with responsibilities spanning architecture, coding, and mentoring, while partnering closely with Product and cross-functional teams.
Key Responsibilities Design and build reliable, testable, production-ready backend services.
Drive architectural decisions and own features end-to-end.
Write clean, maintainable code with strong test coverage.
Mentor engineers and set best practices across the team.
Oversee system monitoring, incident response, and workflow improvements.
Collaborate cross-functionally and contribute to hiring efforts.
5+ years backend experience, 4+ years with Node.
js & TypeScript .
Strong expertise in AWS (Lambda, Cognito, S3, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, CloudFormation).
Experience with serverless, microservices, event-driven architectures .
Skilled in TDD, CI/CD, REST/GraphQL APIs, secure coding .
Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases.
Startup/fast-paced environment experience preferred.