Technical Lead, Backend and Cloud Infrastructure

Beacon Venture Capital

full-time

Posted on: 8/23/2025

Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States

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About the role

Plan and enhance the cloud infrastructure to support high-volume, mission-critical systems, ensuring robustness and scalability.
Design, implement, and maintain APIs for both internal and external data sources, including real-time data streaming from aircraft and support for web/iPad applications.
Oversee bulk data ingestion processes into AWS services, ensuring efficiency and security in data handling.
Set up and maintain Beacon AI’s cloud infrastructure using IaC tools like AWS CDK, with associated CI/CD and testing components.
Provide expert-level troubleshooting and debugging for cloud applications, with a focus on uptime and reliability.
Guide and mentor a team of engineers in developing and deploying serverless applications, fostering an environment of innovation and high performance.
Analyze and optimize system performance for applications interfacing with time series data and multimedia streams, ensuring high reliability and responsiveness.
Implement and maintain rigorous data security practices and protocols to protect sensitive information and comply with industry standards and regulations.

Deep Sense of Ownership: Demonstrates a firm commitment to end-to-end responsibility, from ideation through deployment and beyond, ensuring project success and user satisfaction.
Comfort with Ambiguity: Thrives in uncertain and evolving environments, making sound decisions and progressing effectively without having every detail mapped out.
Extensive Cloud Experience: Deep knowledge of AWS services, including AWS Lambda, API Gateway, AWS Cognito, DynamoDB, and IAM, necessary for robust serverless architecture implementation.
Proven API Expertise: Demonstrated experience in building and managing REST APIs, especially in Node.js or similar environments.
Data Handling Proficiency: Ability to manage large-scale data transfers and streaming efficiently and securely.
Leadership Skills: Strong leadership and communication skills to lead a diverse team and collaborate effectively with QA, product management, and other engineering teams.
Critical Problem-Solving: A strong analytical mindset to troubleshoot issues and optimize the performance of high-traffic applications. Exhibits initiative to identify blockers and generate solutions independently, ensuring continuous project momentum and team productivity.