Technical Lead
First seen by Alion on Aug 18, 2026.
Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced Lead Backend Engineer / Technical Lead with 10-15 years of experience to drive backend architecture, system design, and technical delivery. The role is suited for a hands-on technical leader who can make architectural decisions while continuing to contribute to design and development.
The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, databases, cloud platforms, and modern software engineering practices, along with the ability to guide engineering teams through complex technical challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and evolve scalable, resilient, and maintainable backend systems for enterprise applications.
- Define service boundaries, data ownership, communication patterns, and integration strategies.
- Design solutions using appropriate architectural patterns, including:
1. Microservices
2. Modular monoliths
3. Event-driven architectures
4. Layered architectures
5. Hexagonal / Clean Architecture
- Make architecture and technology decisions by evaluating trade-offs across performance, scalability, cost, reliability, and complexity.
- Define and maintain backend architecture standards, design principles, coding standards, and best practices.
- Design and develop high-performance RESTful APIs and backend services.
- Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and proof-of-concept initiatives.
- Drive modernization and decomposition of legacy applications where required.
- Design distributed systems with appropriate approaches to caching, messaging, asynchronous processing, fault tolerance, and service resiliency.
- Design data models and database solutions based on application requirements and scalability needs.
- Ensure appropriate implementation of security, authentication, authorization, logging, monitoring, and observability.
- Review code and provide technical guidance to senior and mid-level engineers.
- Mentor engineers and help teams adopt sound engineering and architectural practices.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, DevOps, QA, Security, and Architecture teams to deliver complex technical solutions.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive root-cause analysis and long-term remediation.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps and evaluate emerging technologies relevant to the backend ecosystem.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 10-15 years of experience in backend software development, with significant experience in technical leadership or architecture.
- Strong hands-on programming experience in at least one backend language such as Java, Python, Go, C#, or Node.js.
- Extensive experience designing microservices and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, API design, service communication, and integration patterns.
- Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture and messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent.
- Strong database expertise across relational and/or NoSQL databases, including data modeling and performance optimization.
- Experience with Redis or other caching technologies is preferred.
- Strong understanding of distributed-system concepts including scalability, availability, fault tolerance, consistency, concurrency, and resiliency.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or equivalent containerization technologies.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform - AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, infrastructure automation, and observability practices.
- Strong knowledge of design patterns, SOLID principles, clean code, and software engineering best practices.
- Experience with automated unit, integration, and API testing.
- Strong technical communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across teams.
Skills
Backend Architecture, Distributed Systems, Microservices Architecture, RESTful API, Java, Python, Node.js