Lead Backend Engineer

Job Description

About On The SpotWe bring startups and disruptive tech companies to the local market, offering engineers the opportunity to work on innovative, high-impact products. Join us and become a member of their R&D team while we take care of employment, HR support, a benefits package, and an enjoyable work environment.More about usAbout the teamOrca Security is a cloud security platform built for engineers who care about visibility, context, and speed. Founded in 2019 by former Check Point leaders, Orca has raised $630M+ and reached unicorn status in 2021.‍Orca's platform scans the entire cloud environment — AWS, Azure, GCP, and more — and surface what actually matters by prioritizing findings on real-world context: exposure, privilege, and potential impact. Cloud teams choose Orca because it deploys fast, scales with real infrastructure, and stays out of the way.‍The WASP team owns Orca's customer-facing web application and its backend, the public REST API, internal administration tooling, account and inventory management, the platform's authentication, authorization, licensing and feature-flag infrastructure, and the analytics and reporting data pipelines that turn product data into customer-facing insight.‍About the roleYour main focus is to lead the team. You'll own the WASP team's delivery — taking responsibility for the team's committed items, planning the roadmap, running sprint planning, and leading backlog analysis — while working closely with Product Managers and other R&D managers to align on priorities and turn product goals into a clear, achievable plan.‍While leadership is the primary focus, you'll stay hands-on — contributing to architecture, design, and code on critical paths, and setting the technical bar for the team. We expect the team to work with modern AI coding agents (Claude) as part of everyday engineering, and you'll set the standard for how the team adopts them.ResponsibilitiesLead the team's delivery: own the committed items, plan and groom the roadmap, run sprint planning, and lead backlog analysisWork closely with Product Managers and other R&D managers to align priorities, manage dependencies, and translate product goals into an executable planDrive architecture and design decisions across the team, where data correctness, customer-facing API stability, multi-tenant isolation, and pipeline reliability are first-class concernsStay hands-on: write clean, concise, well-tested code on critical paths — primarily in Python, with Go for selected backend servicesUse AI agents to accelerate development, investigation, code review, and lead the team in building effective, safe agent-assisted workflowsDiagnose complex issues, evaluate options, and recommend and execute the best solutionOwn the domain end-to-end, including DevOps: CI/CD, cloud infrastructure on AWS, and monitoring/alertingLead the team's on-call rotation and production incident response for the domainRun team ceremonies, manage delivery against the roadmap, and grow team membersManage the performance of the teamReuirementsBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant experience7+ years of production software engineering experienceStrong Python development experience, including web frameworks for Python (DRF, FastAPI, Flask, etc.)Hands-on Go development experience for backend servicesPractical experience using AI coding agents in day-to-day engineering, and a point of view on where they add the most valueExperienced in building and supporting analytic systemsKnowledge of designing and implementing event-driven systemsDeep understanding of SQL database capabilities within web applications (PostgreSQL)Experienced with micro-service architecture and cloud-native services, focused on AWS cloud infrastructureSolid understanding of software design principles, concurrency, synchronization, memory management, data structures, algorithms, etc.1+ year as a Tech Lead or Team Lead, with proven ability to plan and own delivery, make and defend technical decisions, and grow other engineersAbility to prioritize and organize effectively, with good communication skillsSolid analytical and troubleshooting abilitiesEnglish level — B2Nice to haveExperience defining team-wide practices for AI-assisted development (agent workflows, review and quality guardrails)Experience with modern analytics and data-pipeline toolingExperience building or maintaining publicly published developer or infrastructure-as-code toolingExperience owning customer-facing reliability and leading incident responseBenefitsAt On The Spot, we’re creating a workplace people would want to stay in:supportive, well-organized, and fair in terms of conditions and benefits.‍We’ll share more about our benefit package during the interviews. In the meantime, you can always check our Glassdoor reviews.