Backend Team Lead

We’re looking for a passionate and high-performing **Backend Team Lead**to join our growing team. If you love being challenged and enjoy working in a dynamic environment, this is a career defining role.

**Who we are**

**Who you are**

We are seeking an experienced **Backend Team Lead** to join our team. As a key player in the development process, you will be responsible for the tooling, design, implementation, scalability and performance of our APIs and data pipeline. It's a hands-on position that will require you to spend half your time building with the team and other providing technical leadership and working closely with the front-end and product team, and other stakeholders to deliver robust and efficient services.

**What your day could look like as a**Backend Team Lead**?**
- Implement a new API to be used by internal tools, public APIs or our data pipeline
- Review our performance metrics for bad trends or anomalies or bottlenecks that need to be addressed
- Coach and mentor developers at junior and intermediate level.
- Code review a PR from a direct report
- Hop on a call with team members to go over deployment plans for a larger release
- Deploy a hotfix to correct handling of an unexpected input
- Report on health of key system components

**Responsibilities & duties**
- **Design & Development**: Collaborate on the design, development, and optimization of backend systems and services, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and performant.
- **Architecting Solutions**: Work closely with the CTO to help define the technical roadmap and ensure that solutions are robust, secure, and efficient.
- **Code Quality**: Write clean, well-documented, and maintainable code while adhering to industry best practices and standards.
- **Performance Optimization**: Identify bottlenecks and optimize system performance through profiling, benchmarking, and refactoring code.
- **Collaboration**: Collaborate with front-end developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of backend services with user-facing components.
- **Mentorship and supervision**: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior developers, helping to build their skills and knowledge.
- **Problem Solving**: Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues, including system failures and performance issues, both proactively and reactively.
- **Security & Compliance**: Ensure that backend systems adhere to security best practices and industry regulations, including handling sensitive data securely.
- **Continuous Improvement**: Contribute to ongoing improvements in development processes, tools, and frameworks.
- **Documentation**: Build and maintain technical documentation to ensure proper knowledge transfer and team collaboration.

**Competencies & background experience**
- Proven ability to build scalable and reliable solutions
- A strong balance of hands-on development, architecture knowledge and production support
- Exposure to AWS (ECS, SQS, CloudWatch, S3) or other cloud providers
- Experience building GraphQL/TypeScript based APIs
- A degree in computing science or engineering or equivalent
- 8-10 years of experience in software development with at least 5 years in leading teams

**You are a good fit if**
- Actually enjoy writing software - it's important
- Are genuinely excited to work in a fast paced and challenging environment with other like minded individuals
- You still think about that time you optimized that block of code from 7s to 400ms and possible ideas to optimize it further
- Are more interested in the right solution than your solution
- Are able to prioritize tasks and ship code rather than refactor continuously
- You seek opportunities to be creative, come up with innovative solutions, and don’t require a “playbook” to get things done

**What’s in it for you?**
- Work with a committed and passionate team of innovators at a fast growing startup
- We view this role as a career building opportunity as you’ll work with cross functional teams and the world’s most notable brands, selling a life saving solution
- Competitive compensation and a health benefits package, including dental, extended health, vision care, and a health spending account
- Opportunity to participate in our employee stock option plan
- A seat on the rocket ship - buckle up

**Reports to**:Chief Technical Officer
- Please note that only applicants selected for the interview process will be contacted.

**Diversity and Inclusion**

samdesk is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a safe, diverse and inclusive environment. We encourage qualified applicants of all backgrounds including ethnicity, religion, disability status, gender identity, sexual orientation, family status, age, nationality, and education levels to apply.

**First Peoples Acknowledgement**

samdesk respectfully acknowledges that, being headquartered in Edmonton, we are situated on Treaty 6 and Region 4 territory, traditional lands of First Nation