
Backend Team Lead
TradingView
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Tbilisi • Georgia
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About the role
- Own the team’s roadmap, delivery commitments, and execution quality
- Set clear goals, manage priorities, and ensure alignment with company-wide objectives
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning for team members
- Architect and evolve backend systems that ingest, transform, and serve news data from third-party providers
- Ensure data consistency, integrity, and traceability across ingestion and distribution pipelines
- Optimize Elasticsearch / PostgreSQL schemas and queries for performance and scalability
- Oversee the design and maintenance of internal APIs that serve data to downstream services with low latency and high reliability
- Work closely with product managers, analysts, and other engineering teams to define requirements and integration strategies
- Align with data modelers and system architects to ensure cohesive data structures and system design
- Champion best practices in software engineering, testing, and CI/CD
- Lead code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical deep dives
- Drive initiatives around observability, reliability, and performance tuning
Requirements
- 7+ years in backend development, with 2+ years in a team or tech lead role managing both people and projects
- Proficiency in Golang, and deep experience with Elasticsearch / PostgreSQL (schema design, performance tuning, query optimization)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, data pipelines, and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience building and maintaining RESTful / gRPC APIs and integrating with external data providers
- Proven ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers while fostering a healthy team culture
- Familiarity with distributed systems, message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and caching strategies
- Solid understanding of software engineering principles, testing, and CI/CD practices
Benefits
- Flexible working hours and a hybrid work format
- Well-equipped offices for focused and collaborative work
- A global, distributed team of 500+ professionals
- Learning, mentorship, and long-term career growth
- Relocation support and private health insurance
- Performance-based bonuses
- TradingView Premium access
- Regular team events and company-wide meetups
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
GolangElasticsearchPostgreSQLRESTful APIsgRPC APIsdistributed systemsdata pipelinesmessage queuesperformance tuningschema design
Soft Skills
team leadershipmentoringcoachingcollaborationaccountabilitycontinuous improvementgoal settingperformance reviewscareer developmentcommunication