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Job Description: The Role
As Lead Backend Engineer, you’ll own the technical direction of our core platform, multi-tenant APIs, skill execution runtime, orchestration pipelines, and secure integrations. You’ll set standards, mentor engineers, lead architecture reviews, and partner with Product to ship resilient services that scale.

What You’ll Do

Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs that support Clone Corp platform using Go
Distributed Architecture: Contribute to the design and development of architecture, ensuring scalability and reliability
Data Modeling: Design and implement data models and database schemas, with a focus on Postgres
GCP Services: Utilize Google Cloud Platform services to build and deploy scalable and resilient infrastructure
Containerization: Manage and deploy applications using Kubernetes for container orchestration
Event-Driven Architecture: Implement event-driven systems using Redis pubsub and other technologies for real-time data processing
Performance Optimization: Identify and optimize bottlenecks to ensure high system performance and responsiveness
Security: Implement security best practices to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with industry standards
Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including frontend engineers, product managers, and QA engineers, to deliver high-quality features
Code Reviews: Conduct and participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and consistency
Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, APIs, and best practices
Qualifications

8+ years building production backends/APIs (lead or staff-level ownership on a SaaS platform).
Hands-on expertise with: GCP, Postgres (incl. TimescaleDB), Apache Kafka, GraphQL, and Go (Golang).
Strong experience with Python; TypeScript is a plus.
Deep knowledge of distributed systems: async jobs, caching, eventing, schema/versioning, and data migration.
Secure OAuth/OIDC (Google/Microsoft) and third-party APIs (Slack/Teams, Stripe, Twilio).
Production-grade observability (metrics/logs/traces) and performance/capacity planning.
Containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud security fundamentals on GCP.