Backend Engineering Team Lead

This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role where you will combine strong backend engineering expertise with technical leadership and people development.

We’re looking for someone who is technically strong, hands-on, AI-driven, and passionate about developing people while building scalable and reliable systems.

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years of hands-on software development experience
• 3–5 years of experience in a technical leadership or Team Lead role
• Deep hands-on expertise with Node.js — must-have
• Strong experience with AWS — must-have
• Experience with React — preferred
• Experience with Python — advantage
• Experience working with MongoDB
• Strong experience designing and building scalable backend systems
• Proven experience managing technical execution across multiple workstreams
• Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, reliability, and clean code principles
• Experience delivering end-to-end features and projects from design through production
• Experience working in a fast-paced product environment
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to make technical decisions independently
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience leading or collaborating with global or distributed teams
• Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience participating in customer-facing technical discussions

- Only specialists with proven engineering leadership experience will be considered.

What You’ll Be Doing

Leadership & Sprint Execution

• Own Team Execution: Lead the team across multiple workstreams, ensuring high-quality delivery and strong execution throughout every sprint.
• Drive Sprint Planning: Own the sprint planning process, including prioritization, capacity planning, and alignment on sprint goals and deliverables.
• Cross-Team Coordination: Act as the primary bridge between your team and other departments, proactively removing blockers and managing cross-team dependencies.
• Develop the Team: Improve team velocity and individual capabilities through ongoing coaching, mentoring, feedback, and identification of skill gaps.

Technical Excellence & Design

• Own Technical Design: Lead the technical design of features and solutions, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, maintainable, and built according to strong engineering standards.
• Stay Hands-On: Lead by example through active participation in high-scale, cloud-based development using technologies such as Node.js, AWS, and MongoDB.
• Drive Code Quality: Conduct thorough code reviews and promote best practices around architecture, maintainability, performance, and engineering quality.
• Partner with Product: Work closely with Product Managers to shape features from initial concept and technical design through development, release, and production.

Customer-Facing & Domain Ownership

• Engage with Customers: Participate in technical sessions with customers, helping address technical requirements, challenges, integrations, and product-related discussions.
• Own Your Domain: Serve as the technical focal point for your domain and manage communication with OX’s internal Customer Success teams.
• Shape Product Enhancements: Lead technical discussions and decision-making related to product improvements, new capabilities, and feature planning.

AI-First & Performance Mentality

• Drive an AI-First Culture: Integrate AI tools and workflows into the daily development lifecycle, including AI-assisted coding, automated testing, prompt-driven prototyping, and other productivity-enhancing practices.
• Improve Efficiency & Quality: Promote a strong “Get Things Done” culture where speed does not come at the expense of stability, scalability, or quality.
• Use Modern Engineering Tools: Ensure the team continuously adopts the best available technologies, tools, and development practices to improve productivity and overall engineering performance.