
Lead Software Engineer – Backend
Faros
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Mateo • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $210,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Architect, build, and scale our highly scalable data infrastructure and core engineering platforms
- Lead from the front by writing high-quality, resilient code, establishing architectural standards, and building best practices for backend services/APIs
- Act as a technical partner to product and engineering leadership, translating business strategy into technical roadmaps and mentoring other engineers.
Requirements
- 5–8+ years with ownership of critical components or services
- Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript + Node.js and/or Python
- Experience designing/consuming/implementing REST/GraphQL APIs
- Experience with building & productionizing web services, data pipelines, ETL/ELT, orchestration frameworks
- Strong database fundamentals (SQL/NoSQL)
- CI/CD familiarity (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.)
- Experience running production workloads including monitoring, alerting, logging, metrics, traces, oncall
- Security fundamentals
- Hands-on experience with one of more major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP (certifications are a plus)
- Comfortable working with distributed international teams
- Strong ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
- English C1: able to participate in technical calls and write clear communication.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
TypeScriptNode.jsPythonREST APIsGraphQL APIsweb servicesdata pipelinesETLELTSQL
Soft Skills
mentoringcommunicationcollaborationleadershiptechnical trade-offs