Backend Team Lead

A leading and innovative company in the field of cyber threat intelligence is looking for a Backend Team Lead to join our growing engineering group and lead one of our core backend teams.In this role, you will lead a team responsible for building and scaling mission critical backend services that power KELA’s intelligence platform handling large volumes of data, complex pipelines and high-availability systems. You will combine people leadership with hands-on technical leadership, working closely with product, research and operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions that directly support the company’s growth and business goals.What You’ll Be DoingLead and grow a backend engineering team, creating a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.Own the design, development, and delivery of backend services, APIs and data pipelines in a cloud-native, microservices-based environment.Work closely with Product, Research, and Operations to translate business and intelligence needs into scalable technical solutions.Drive technical and architectural decisions within your domain, balancing performance, reliability, and cost.Maintain high engineering standards through code reviews, testing, and CI/CD best practices.Be hands-on in the code (around 50-60%), leading by example.Take full ownership of your team’s roadmap, delivery, and technical health.Technology stack includes: C#, NestJS, Kubernetes, Kafka, and various relational and non-relational databases, Elasticsearch.