Polarsteps

Backend Engineer

• Lead the platform team of Senior Backend and DevOps Engineers, setting clear technical direction and expectations while staying close enough to the code to spot problems early and driving a top-notch developer experience.
• Own the platform and backend roadmap in partnership with Product & Mobile, turning company-level goals into scalable technical solutions and making pragmatic architecture decisions that balance long-term platform investments with short-term wins.
• Scale and evolve our infrastructure to handle continued growth (we have millions of active users), with reliability, performance, and observability top of mind.
• Raise the technical bar through hands-on code reviews, architectural guidance, and clear standards.
• Be accountable for team health and performance: delivery, quality, incident response, knowledge sharing, and sustainable on-call practices.
• Be AI-pilled, but responsibly. You are on top of and experiment with the fast-changing landscape of AI tooling, and act as an evangelist within the team - but always understanding its current limitations and ensuring its usage is properly de-risked.

Lead Backend Engineer

Engineering Manager

• Drive high performance: You'll be pivotal in guiding our tech leads and team members’ personal development, fostering tight-knit collaboration while constantly improving our workflow and processes. Your goal is to ensure our team is happy and productive, operating like a well-oiled machine with a keen focus on efficiency and effectiveness.
• Get Things Done: You're in charge of making sure initiatives start, and also cross the finish line. You can easily juggle priorities, resources and deadlines - making hard choices is second nature to you.
• Lead the evolution of our platform: You’ll lead the team through the big calls on tech and architecture. The decisions you’ll make together will keep our platform robust and ready for the future, as you proactively cultivate the resiliency, maintainability, scalability and general operational excellence of every corner of our platform, addressing technical debt when needed or, even better, preventing it when it makes sense.
• Innovate and Elevate: We're looking for someone who’s always on the lookout for new tech trends and ways to do things better; and more importantly, is able to identify which of those should *not* be adopted.
• AI-pilled, but responsibly: you understand the potential and current power of AI-driven development, and at the same time you’re aware of the best way to leverage it to manage its limitations and risks.
• Care deeply about the people in your team, and the success of Polarsteps; you’ll be able to balance being a candid, caring, supportive and empathetic manager with making tough decisions when needed to support the growth of the business.

Lead Backend Engineer

Head of Engineering