Hiring: Lead Backend Engineer Company: US Mobile Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 11:33:52 Target Skills & Keywords : AI, AWS, Agile, CI/CD, Django, Flask, Git, Java, MongoDB, Python, REST, RESTful, RabbitMQ, SNS, SQS, Spring Boot, Stakeholder Management, Systems Design About the job Experience: •12+ years of experience with Java and Spring Boot, including experience in a technical leadership or people management role Required Skills: •Build and lead a team - hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing group of backend engineers as we scale •Shape technical direction - influence architecture, tooling, and roadmap decisions across backend systems •Stay hands-on - architect optimal solutions to our business problems and ship features alongside your team •Scale our systems - help us grow to tens of millions of customers and connected devices •Raise the bar - build quality tools and frameworks to ensure a high-quality product •Protect reliability - build systems to ensure continuous uptime •Influence technical direction and architectural decisions across backend systems - balancing pragmatism with long-term scalability •Champion a bias toward action - prototype to resolve disagreements, ship incrementally, and avoid analysis paralysis on reversible decisions Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field •Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing backend engineers, including hiring and performance management •Proven ability to influence technical direction and drive architectural decisions at a team or organizational level •Strong stakeholder management skills - able to represent backend engineering’s perspective persuasively in front of executives, PMs, and cross-functional partners •Comfort operating in a fast paced environment - wearing multiple hats across engineering, hiring, and cross-functional work •Strong experience with building and consuming REST APIs •Applied hands-on capability in message brokers such as RabbitMQ or AWS SQS/SNS •Operational familiarity with MongoDB or other NoSQL database technologies •Demonstrated ability to incorporate AI tools into the software development lifecycle, using Claude or Opencode for tasks like automated code reviews, documentation generation, and improving system design efficiency •Solid understanding of Git, CI/CD workflows, and agile development practices Compensation: •$180,000 - $240,000 / year •Professional development stipend Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!