✅Essential
Leadership &
Mentorship: Direct people management experience OR a strong background in technical leadership, mentoring engineers, or leading project virtual teams (v-teams), with the desire and capability to step into managing 3–5 direct reports.
Production Engineering Experience: Proven track record building, scaling, and monitoring production-grade backend and infrastructure applications.
Core Language Proficiency: Python is our primary backend language. We welcome candidates with strong experience in other core languages (Go, Java, C++, etc.), provided you are fully motivated to develop primarily in Python moving forward.
Database Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with relational databases (specifically PostgreSQL), including query optimization, index tuning, high-concurrency performance tuning and data modelling.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes management, deployment, and container orchestration.
Cloud &
Systems Infrastructure: Solid understanding of cloud computing concepts with hands-on experience in AWS.
Communication &
Collaboration: Outstanding communication skills with a proven ability to bridge complex technical execution with non-technical business stakeholders.
✅Desirable
Experience architecting or migrating legacy batch systems to real-time streaming data pipelines.
Foundational knowledge or practical experience integrating Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning models into production data workflows.