Lead Engineer

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Technical Lead to oversee the design, development, and operation of distributed application architectures that power mission-critical APIs and data services. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight, ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient systems in a Cloud Hosted Environment, preferably AWS.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture & Design
  - Lead service decomposition strategies for GraphQL subgraphs and backend APIs, including synchronous (serverless) and asynchronous (containerized) workloads.
  - Define resiliency patterns (health modeling, DLQs, autoscaling) and observability strategies (distributed tracing, structured logging, dashboards).

• Infrastructure & Operations
  - Oversee compute stacks (serverless functions, container orchestration) and networking (private subnets, secure ingress, VPC endpoints).

• Drive CI/CD best practices for zero-downtime deployments, blue/green rollouts, and automated health checks.

• Application Development
  - Guide teams in building GraphQL subgraphs with Apollo Server (TypeScript/Node), resolver design, schema evolution, and validation directives.
  - Lead development of Golang-based services for high-throughput APIs, webhooks, and background processing with robust concurrency and context management.

• Implement structured logging, error handling, and observability across all services.

• Data & Messaging
  - Design and optimize data models for relational (PostgreSQL or equivalent) stores; enforce encryption and backup strategies.
  - Implement ORM-based persistence layers using GORM, PrismaORM, TypeORM or similar ORMs for maintainable and secure data access.
  - Architect messaging workflows with queues, event buses, and orchestration frameworks for reliable, at-least-once delivery.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor engineers, foster a culture of technical excellence, and ensure alignment with business objectives.

• Collaborate with product, compliance, and security teams to meet regulatory and operational requirements.

Required Skills & Experience

• Programming Languages:
  - Expert in TypeScript and Golang; strong understanding of Node.js and Go runtime patterns.

• API Frameworks:
  - Apollo Server (GraphQL), Express, RESTful API design.

• ORMs & Data Modeling:
  - GORM (Go), PrismaORM or TypeORM (TypeScript); relational schema design.

• Cloud & Infrastructure:
  - Proficiency in at least one major cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure); experience with serverless (Lambda/Functions), container orchestration (ECS/Fargate, Kubernetes), and IaC (CDK/Terraform).

• Security & Compliance:
  - TLS, OIDC/JWT, IAM/RBAC, KMS or equivalent encryption services.

• Observability:
  - Distributed tracing (X-Ray/OpenTelemetry), structured logging, metrics/alerting pipelines.

• Messaging & Orchestration:
  - SQS/EventBridge or equivalents (Pub/Sub, Service Bus); DLQs; workflow engines.

• CI/CD:
  - Automated pipelines with tools including Github Actions, Jenkins or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GraphQL federation and schema governance.

• Familiarity with multi-cloud strategies and cost optimization.

• Background in high-volume data processing and event-driven architectures.