Backend Tech Lead (Product Infrastructure)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 29, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 20, 2026.
Join our team as a Backend Tech Lead (Product Infrastructure) where you will guide and scale our Product Infrastructure team. You will lead a team of 3-5 engineers while remaining closely involved in technical architecture and execution. Your focus will be on infrastructure support, scalability, and service provisioning, ensuring seamless data flow from upstream scrapers to our production application. You will also oversee infrastructure scaling, database optimization, automation, and AI integration. This role requires deep hands-on experience with relational databases, cloud computing concepts, production engineering, and strong communication skills.
Missions
- Lead and mentor a team of 3-5 engineers, driving project planning, sprint execution, and technical delivery.
- Oversee the strategic migration from legacy daily batch tasks to a high-throughput, real-time stream processing ingestion pipeline.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business objectives into clear technical roadmaps and execution plans.
Profil recherché
- Database Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with relational databases (specifically PostgreSQL), including query optimization, index tuning, high-concurrency performance tuning and data modelling- 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
- Cloud & Systems Infrastructure: Solid understanding of cloud computing concepts with hands-on experience in AWS
- Production Engineering Experience: Proven track record building, scaling, and monitoring production-grade backend and infrastructure applications
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes management, deployment, and container orchestration
- 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
- Communication & Collaboration: Outstanding communication skills with a proven ability to bridge complex technical execution with non-technical business stakeholders
- 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