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Backend Team Lead

In short

This is a Backend Team Lead role at a cybersecurity company building tools to secure the AI-driven software development lifecycle. The role combines people leadership (sprint planning, coaching, cross-team coordination) with hands-on technical leadership on scalable cloud-based Node.js systems, plus direct involvement in customer technical discussions and product planning. It requires 6+ years of software development experience with 3-5 years in a technical leadership role, deep Node.js expertise, and strong AWS experience.

About the Company
The company secures the AI-driven software development lifecycle from prompt to production. It reduces real-time risks from AI-generated code through cloud runtime by unifying development and cloud context and addressing vulnerabilities at their source. The company is building cybersecurity for the AI era.
Responsibilities
•Lead the team across multiple workstreams and ensure high-quality delivery throughout every sprint
•Own sprint planning, including prioritization, capacity planning, and alignment on goals and deliverables
•Coordinate with other departments, remove blockers, and manage cross-team dependencies
•Develop team velocity and individual capabilities through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and identification of skill gaps
•Lead technical design and ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, maintainable, and built to strong engineering standards
•Participate hands-on in high-scale, cloud-based development
•Conduct code reviews and promote best practices in architecture, maintainability, performance, and engineering quality
•Partner with Product Managers to shape features from concept and technical design through development, release, and production
•Participate in customer technical sessions on requirements, challenges, integrations, and product discussions
•Serve as the technical focal point for the domain and manage communication with internal Customer Success teams
•Lead technical discussions and decisions on product improvements, new capabilities, and feature planning
•Integrate AI tools and workflows into the development lifecycle, including AI-assisted coding, automated testing, and prompt-driven prototyping
Requirements
•6+ years of hands-on software development experience
•3–5 years of experience in a technical leadership or Team Lead role
•Deep hands-on expertise with Node.js
•Strong experience with AWS
Nice to have:
•Experience with React
•Experience with Python
Conditions
No conditions specified in the posting.

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