Team Lead – Backend-Focused

SD Solutions

full-time

Posted on: 10/3/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇵🇱 Poland

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Senior

AWSCloudJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsPostgres

About the role

Lead and mentor a distributed team of backend developers (initially ~4 people).
Drive technical decisions on architecture, system design, and best practices.
Contribute directly to backend development (Node.js) while supporting frontend collaboration.
Oversee delivery of features end-to-end, from planning to deployment.
Champion quality, reliability, and scalability in everything we ship.
Implement solutions using Temporal for scheduling, Postgres, Kubernetes, and AWS.
Ensure best practices in CI/CD, monitoring, and automation testing (developers are expected to write their own automation tests).
Collaborate closely with DevOps (outsourced) and internal stakeholders to maintain a stable, secure, and scalable infrastructure.
Bring deep business understanding into technical decisions, ensuring engineering efforts align with fintech goals.

7+ years of experience in software development, including leadership responsibilities.
Strong backend expertise (Node.js, APIs, databases, cloud environments).
Experience scaling production systems and designing distributed architectures.
Solid experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Temporal, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring.
Proven ability to mentor, manage, and inspire engineers in a remote setup.

Benefits

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Node.jsAPIsdatabasescloud environmentsscaling production systemsdistributed architecturesCI/CDmonitoringautomation testingsystem design

leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationinspirationbusiness understanding