Job Opportunities API

A Backend Tech Lead at Accellor owns the design, delivery, and long-term health of scalable, distributed backend systems while leading and growing the engineers who build them. This is a hands-on technical role with real people-management responsibility: you set technical direction, drive delivery across one or more squads, and actively mentor and unblock the engineers reporting into you. You are equally comfortable in a design review, a 1:1, and a production incident.  Responsibilities  Technical Leadership & Architecture  Own the architecture for backend services and platforms — microservices boundaries, API contracts, data models, and inter-service communication patterns.  Make and document key technical decisions (build vs. buy, sync vs. async, consistency vs. availability trade-offs) and align teams around them.  Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, testing strategy, observability, and operational readiness.  People & Team Leadership  Directly manage, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers, including running 1:1s, setting goals, giving feedback, and supporting career development.  Plan, distribute, and track work across the team — breaking down epics, sequencing delivery, and removing blockers so the team ships predictably.  Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, code review, and design coaching, raising the bar for the whole team rather than being the single point of delivery.  Partner with product, architecture, and other engineering leads to translate business goals into technical roadmaps and realistic commitments.  Delivery & Engineering Execution  Lead by example with hands-on contribution to high-impact and complex parts of the codebase.  Design and operate microservices: service decomposition, API design (REST/gRPC/GraphQL), versioning, and backward compatibility.  Build event-driven and asynchronous workflows using message queues and streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar).  Design data persistence and caching strategies across relational and NoSQL stores, with appropriate use of caching layers (Redis/Memcached) for performance and scale.  Scalability, Reliability & Security  Ensure systems are designed for scale, resilience, and graceful degradation — load balancing, rate limiting, retries, circuit breakers, and idempotency.  Drive observability across services: structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and actionable alerting.  Enforce backend security best practices: authentication/authorization (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT), least-privilege access, secrets management, and secure handling of data in transit and at rest.  Own production quality — on-call leadership, incident response, root-cause analysis, and follow-through on remediation.  Collaboration & Governance  Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams on CI/CD, containerization, and deployment strategy for backend services.  Recommend and implement standards for code organization, service ownership, and technical governance across teams.  Requirements Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.  7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and operating production backend systems at scale.  Demonstrated experience leading both projects and people — owning end-to-end delivery for a team, managing engineers directly, and mentoring juniors. You must be able to point to specific teams you’ve grown and projects you’ve driven to delivery.  Languages & Frameworks: Deep expertise in at least one major backend stack (e.g., Java/Spring Boot, Go, Python, Node.js,