Sr. Tech Lead - Backend

About the role

Veeam, a data and AI trust company headquartered in Seattle, is hiring a Senior Tech Lead - Backend to join a distributed agile team building a new SaaS platform that underpins a suite of enterprise applications for data analytics and enterprise problems. The role ensures that the framework and products developed meet the established design, implementation and quality goals.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and architect the core backend platform of a globally distributed team of backend engineers
• Help create architecture documents, functional specifications, design documents and developer test plans
• Coordinate end-to-end development, deployment and testing of new features and enhancements
• Write reliable, secure, performant and scalable code, review and analyse code
• Monitor platform performance and stay on call for urgent issues
• Work with customer support to address customer issues
• Integrate new technologies into the back-end cloud infrastructure

Required profile

• Minimum 8 years of software development experience, with some experience using container technologies such as Docker
• Experience building highly available and scalable distributed systems for the cloud
• Strong conceptual understanding of multi-threaded applications
• Professional development experience in GoLang, Node.js, Java, C++ or Python
• Good knowledge of Linux and bash scripting
• Experience with microservices and REST-based HTTP/2 architectures
• Experience with SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (Mongo/Elasticsearch)
• Knowledge of performance tuning, profiling and software metrics tools; strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills
• Understanding of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins and agile development methodologies (a must)
• Excellent communication skills and a high level of energy and teamwork

Required skills

• GoLang, Node.js, Java, C++, Python
• Linux and bash scripting
• Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
• Bonus: AWS, GCP, Azure; Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Docker
• Bonus: load balancers, security, QoS, configuration management, blue/green or canary deployments, API connectors to cloud SaaS services

What we offer

• Competitive compensation package
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• Professional development opportunities