We're rebuilding a fully owned, offline-first platform for inspection and compliance workflows and we need a Lead Backend Engineer to drive the backend architecture.
This is a high-impact, hands-on role. You'll lead the design and development of schema-driven inspections, offline sync systems, custom reporting engines, and scalable APIs not just glue code.
What You'll Do:
- Own and evolve core backend services.
- Design dynamic, schema-driven APIs (JSON metadata).
- Build an offline-first sync engine (queued writes, retry logic, conflict resolution).
- Replace Survey123 reports with a new HTML-to-PDF engine (WeasyPrint, wkhtmltopdf).
- Generate static maps for field reports.
- Collaborate closely with mobile engineers (iOS, Android) and DevOps teams.
- Mentor mid-level engineers and remote collaborators.
What You Bring:
- 7+ years backend engineering experience.
- Python expert with real-world async experience (FastAPI preferred).
- Deep AWS knowledge: EC2/Fargate, S3, IAM, ALB, CloudWatch.
- PostgreSQL wizardry (JSONB, PostGIS, indexing, migrations).
- JWT/OIDC auth (Cognito or FastAPI JWT stacks).
- Event-driven architecture skills (Redis, background workers, retry queues).
- Strong engineering discipline: typed interfaces, testing, observability.
