Innovecs

Backend Team Leader – AI-Driven Lifecycle Specialist

Innovecs

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Ukraine

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About the role

  • Full-Spectrum AI Integration: Implement and oversee the "full use of AI" across the SDLC—from architectural design and code generation to debugging and deployment—to maximize team velocity.
  • Accelerated Delivery: Use AI-driven insights to meet and exceed performance benchmarks, ensuring that technical debt is minimized while output is maximized.
  • Prompt Engineering & Mentorship: Mentor the team in AI best practices, ensuring AI is used as a core engine for development, not just a complementary tool.
  • Performance & KPIs: Define and monitor clear KPIs with team members, reporting progress to senior management.
  • Bi-directional Growth: Conduct monthly 1-on-1s and 6-month formal feedback sessions to support career paths and personal development.
  • Code Quality: Enforce a strict 97% code coverage ratio and maintain a code churn of 10% or less during the final two days of a sprint.
  • Stability: Ensure less than 1% of deployed code results in downtime.
  • Review Process: Lead code reviews focused on performance, standards, and observability.
  • Documentation: Foster a sharing culture by keeping the wiki updated and sharing monthly technical articles with the team.
  • Data-Driven Decisions: Use analytical rigor and data to guide the team’s direction.
  • Autonomy: Provide clear goals in our Agile environment and empower the team to be self-directing.
  • Risk Mitigation: Act as a "lantern" for the team, identifying and solving problems before they escalate.

Requirements

  • Expertise in AI‐Driven Development Lifecycle (AIDLC) and the ability to embed AI across design, development, testing, deployment, and operations.
  • Expertise in Asp.Net 7/8, Web API, and C# for building scalable backend services.
  • Expertise in Microservice Architecture and Domain‐Driven Design (DDD), including structuring complex domains and designing distributed systems.
  • Expertise in Unit and Integration Testing using xUnit, NSubstitute, and modern testing practices.
  • Expertise in relational data access with T‐SQL, EF Core, and Dapper.
  • Above‐average level in distributed messaging and caching technologies such as Redis, Kafka, or RabbitMQ.
  • Above‐average level in containerized development and cloud‐native deployment, including Docker and Kubernetes.
Benefits
  • Flexible hours and remote-first mode
  • Competitive compensation
  • Complete Hardware/Software setup – anything you need for work
  • Open-door culture, transparent communication, and top management at a handshake distance
  • Health insurance, vacation, sick leaves, holidays, paid maternity/paternity leave
  • Access to our learning & development center: workshops, webinars, training platform, and edutainment events
  • Virtual team buildings and social activities
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI IntegrationAI-Driven Development LifecycleAsp.Net 7Asp.Net 8Web APIC#Microservice ArchitectureDomain-Driven DesignUnit TestingIntegration Testing
Soft Skills
MentorshipPerformance MonitoringCareer DevelopmentCode Quality EnforcementDocumentationData-Driven Decision MakingAutonomyRisk Mitigation