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Backend Lead - Hands-on Tech Lead
Stellar Tech
Remote · worldwide, UTC+4 acceptedSalary not disclosedcontractNewVerified recentlyHimalayas
This is a hands-on player-coach role combining backend architecture, technical execution, engineering leadership, and people management. You will lead a small team of experienced backend engineers while remaining actively involved in technical design, critical implementation, code reviews, production troubleshooting, and technical research.
Responsibilities
- Own the backend technical direction and architecture across our product ecosystem.
- Translate product initiatives into technical solutions: clarify requirements, assess feasibility, identify risks, prepare technical designs, and decompose work for the team.
- Own the complete engineering lifecycle from refinement and solution design to implementation, release, monitoring, and production improvements.
- Design scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend solutions aligned with product and business needs.
- Build and evolve shared backend capabilities, reusable components, and platform solutions that allow the company to launch and scale multiple products efficiently.
- Define service boundaries, data ownership, APIs, integration patterns, and communication between systems.
- Make and defend pragmatic architectural decisions, including
- Monolith vs services.
- Synchronous vs asynchronous communication.
- SQL vs NoSQL.
Languages
- Work format
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Posted
- 27 Sept 2026 (6 days ago)
- Last verified
- 4 Oct 2026
- Apply by
- 26 Nov 2026