Engineering Head - Backend Architecture & Infrastructure
First seen by Alion on Sep 17, 2026.
Location: Remote
Experience: 10 - 12 Years
Leadership: 4+ years leading engineering teams/orgs end-to-end
Reports to: Founder
Team: 12 Engineers + QA/Testing
Key Responsibilities:
- Own engineering strategy, delivery, quality, and technical execution.
- Lead and coach Engineering Leads and engineering teams.
- Drive architecture, code quality, QA, testing, and engineering processes.
- Own platform reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and incident management.
- Partner with Product on prioritization, scope, timelines, and technical trade-offs.
- Build engineering hiring and skills-development plans.
- Improve processes across multiple engineering pods.
- Ensure customer-facing technical issues are tracked, resolved, and communicated effectively.
- Stay hands-on when required with critical code paths, complex bugs, and technical prototypes.
Ideal Profile:
- 10 - 12 years of engineering experience, with 4+ years in senior engineering leadership.
- Experience leading multiple teams/pods in startups or scale-ups.
- Strong backend, infrastructure, and production-reliability background.
- Experience with AWS, REST/GraphQL APIs, and SQL databases.
- Strong understanding of scalability, observability, performance, and incident management.
- Proven experience improving QA/testing and engineering processes.
- Experience mentoring and developing Engineering Leads.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- High ownership, urgency, and ability to work independently.
- Comfortable remaining technically hands-on when needed.
Skills
Engineering Management, IT Head, Backend Infrastructure, Backend Architecture, AWS, GraphQL