Job Title: Technology Head – Backend

Experience: 5+ years

Job Overview

We are looking for an innovative and experienced Technology Head – Backend to lead and actively contribute to our engineering efforts. In this role, you will be a hands-on technical leader — writing and reviewing code alongside the team while also driving architecture decisions and ensuring our cloud-native microservices platform is scalable, secure, and cost-efficient. Our primary infrastructure runs on Firebase and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with additional workloads on AWS, and our services are built as microservices using Google Cloud Functions.

You will be expected to lead by example — actively participating in development while providing strategic direction across architecture, infrastructure, team growth, and delivery.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Management

Onboard and train backend and technical staff
Actively participate in backend development alongside the team — writing, reviewing, and shipping production code
Assign and oversee daily tasks of technical personnel, ensuring alignment with project milestones
Hold regular team meetings to track progress and address challenges
Define clear deliverables, roles, and responsibilities across the team
Establish and implement training processes and strategies for all technical personnel
Provide guidance and insight to upper management and procure stakeholder buy-in
Report progress, including any changes made to plans and production timelines
Work closely with the project manager to ensure timely and on-budget delivery

Architecture & System Design

Own and evolve the overall backend architecture, ensuring it is scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business goals
Review and approve architecture designs proposed by the team before implementation
Lead architectural discussions, design reviews, and technical decision-making across projects
Define and enforce architecture standards, patterns, and best practices across microservices
Evaluate and introduce new technologies, frameworks, or architectural patterns where appropriate
Ensure proper separation of concerns, API design standards, and data modeling across services
Guide the team in designing fault-tolerant, event-driven, and asynchronous systems where applicable

Google Cloud Platform & Firebase

Lead backend development and operations on GCP, with deep expertise in Google Cloud Functions as the primary microservices runtime
Oversee Firebase services including Firestore, Firebase Auth, Realtime Database, Firebase Storage, and Cloud Messaging
Manage GCP services including Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and VPC configurations
Define deployment strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and release processes on GCP
Guide the team on best practices for cold start optimization, function composition, and stateless microservice design within Cloud Functions
Oversee multi-environment setups (dev, staging, production) and ensure proper environment isolation

AWS Integration & Multi-Cloud Management

Manage and maintain workloads running on AWS (e.g., S3, Lambda, EC2, RDS, or other services in use)
Ensure seamless integration between GCP and AWS environments where cross-cloud dependencies exist
Define clear boundaries and ownership between GCP-primary and AWS-secondary workloads
Evaluate opportunities to consolidate or optimize across cloud providers based on cost and performance

Cost Optimization

Continuously monitor and analyze cloud spending across GCP and AWS
Identify and implement cost optimization strategies — including right-sizing, reserved capacity, function timeout tuning, cold start reduction, and eliminating idle resources
Establish budgeting and alerting frameworks to prevent cost overruns
Review architectural decisions through a cost-efficiency lens and guide the team to make cost-aware design choices
Evaluate build-vs-buy trade-offs and third-party service costs periodically

Infrastructure, Security & Performance

Oversee server performance monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning
Define and enforce security best practices including IAM roles, least-privilege access, secret management, and API security
Conduct and oversee code quality reviews; ensure code is bug-free and adheres to quality standards
Implement logging, tracing, and observability standards across all microservices
Manage incident response processes and drive post-mortem reviews for production issues
Provide late night / off-hours support when needed for critical issues or production failures

Product & Delivery

Contribute to product design, feature scoping, and technical requirement definition
Oversee QA and user testing processes; report results and adjust requirements accordingly
Deliver products consistently, on time, and within budget
Ensure all new technology introductions are properly documented and relevant stakeholders are trained

Desired Skills

Technical

Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform — especially Cloud Functions, Firestore, Firebase, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, and GCP IAM
Solid working knowledge of Firebase services (Auth, Firestore, Storage, FCM, Remote Config)
Experience with AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, RDS, or equivalent) and managing multi-cloud environments
Deep expertise in microservices architecture — service decomposition, inter-service communication, event-driven patterns, and API design
Proficiency in backend languages relevant to the stack (Node.js, Python, Go, or similar)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices on GCP (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or equivalent)
Familiarity with cost monitoring tools (GCP Billing, AWS Cost Explorer) and optimization techniques
Strong grasp of security principles — IAM, secrets management, OAuth2, and data protection

Leadership & Soft Skills

Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow a technical team
Strong architectural thinking with the ability to balance speed, scale, and simplicity
Excellent communication skills — able to translate technical decisions for non-technical stakeholders
Willingness to build professional relationships across teams and with clients
Proactive problem-solving mindset with strong diagnostic and troubleshooting abilities
Accountable, trustworthy, and able to build lasting relationships within the team

Technology Head Backend