Lead Engineer
Description For Lead Engineer
Find.co is seeking an experienced Lead Engineer to spearhead their technical architecture and engineering excellence initiatives. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic system design, focusing on building scalable, secure, and efficient solutions. The position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies including Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and various AWS services, while leading the implementation of best practices across development teams. The role involves working with AI and LLMs, suggesting an innovative technical environment. As a remote position available across multiple European cities, it offers flexibility in work location while being part of a forward-thinking engineering team. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in backend architecture, database optimization, and modern development practices, with opportunities to influence technical direction and mentor other engineers. This role is perfect for a senior technologist looking to make a significant impact on product architecture while working with modern tools and methodologies in a remote-first environment.
Responsibilities For Lead Engineer
- Drive the architectural vision and technical roadmap to ensure scalable, maintainable, performant, and secure systems
- Define and enforce technology standards, design patterns, and coding best practices across development teams
- Conduct comprehensive code reviews, emphasizing trunk-based development and CI/CD pipelines
- Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance system capabilities and efficiency
- Proactively identify technical bottlenecks, bugs, and risks, and devise actionable solutions
- Work closely with product teams, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to align technical strategies with business objectives
- Proactively identify risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure timely delivery of high-quality solutions
- Advocate agile methodologies to streamline development processes and enhance delivery quality
- Continuously evaluate and improve engineering practices, tools, and workflows
- Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues to ensure system reliability
Requirements For Lead Engineer
- Proven experience with the core tech stack: Node.js, Typescript, Next.js, Python, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, RabbitMQ, and Elastic Search
- Strong understanding of scalable architecture, design patterns, and system security
- Hands-on experience with agile methodologies and trunk-based development
- Solid expertise in database modeling, optimization, and performance tuning, specifically PostgreSQL
- Hands-on experience with event-driven queuing services (AWS SNS, Kafka, or similar)
- Experience with LLMs and AI Agents
- Experience with building resilient and high-performance backend architectures (e.g., REST APIs, microservices)
- Certifications in AWS Solutions Architecture, Docker, or Agile methodologies (Nice to have)
- Experience with GraphQL and additional modern frameworks (e.g., NestJS) (Nice to have)
- Exposure to low-code platforms (e.g., Retool) for rapid application development (Nice to have)
- Experience in DevOps practices, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC), monitoring, alerting, and incident management (Nice to have)
- Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus) and APM tools (New Relic, Datadog) (Nice to have)
- Knowledge of microservices architecture, event-driven design, and scalability best practices (Nice to have)
- Experience implementing data compliance standards (GDPR, ISO 27001) (Nice to have)
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