Freemodel

Backend Engineer

• Own the backend stack
• Lead design and implementation of backend services in Go on AWS.
• Make core architecture decisions around serverless vs. containerized services, data stores, and APIs.
• Keep our system reliable, observable, and cost-efficient.
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership to a 4–5 person team.
• Help engineers break down work, make tradeoffs, and ship on time.
• Work closely with the engineer who splits time between iOS/Flutter and backend.
• Ensure our APIs, contracts, and releases are smooth for mobile clients.
• Collaborate with product and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and scope.
• Encourage and model effective use of AI coding and productivity tools.
• Identify where AI can accelerate development, testing, debugging, and documentation.
• Own production readiness: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and postmortems.
• Improve developer experience: CI/CD, infra as code, testing strategies, and tooling.

Tech Lead – Backend Engineer, Go, AWS, Serverless, AI