Backend Lead

Responsibilities:

• Architect Node.js systems that scale from zero to millions; resilient, battle-tested, and ready for anything.
• Tear apart bottlenecks before they become outages.
• Build a backend that auto-heals, scales without begging, and doesn't melt at 1M RPM.
• Own the full lifecycle; from feature idea to scaling in production.
• Guide engineers, set the technical bar, and call out flawed designs.
• Think ahead: design for chaos, failovers, and ugly realities before they happen.

Requirements:

• You've watched a system catch fire and brought it back with grit and caffeine.
• You've scaled services under brutal load and lived to tell the story.
• You know Node.js beyond frameworks: profiling, event loop internals, and async churn.
• You can rip apart AWS quirks (RDS slow queries, ElastiCache meltdowns, S3 limits) in your sleep.
• You don't wait for instructions; you see a mess and fix it.

Bonus XP (Things That Impress Us):

• You've taken systems to 100M+ users or 6-digit RPS.
• You've crushed AWS bills without slowing down a single request.
• You've built real-time madness: Kafka, Kinesis, WebSockets.
• You've designed secure-by-default infra: IAM, VPC, and KMS.