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Backend Architect - Head of Area
Role Description
Your main goal will be to lead the strategy, evolution, and governance of cloud-native backend architectures for high-traffic, large-scale platforms, ensuring resilience, performance, security, and scalability.
You will act as a bridge between the business/product vision and technical execution, driving advanced practices such as Spec-Driven Development (SDD) and AI-Assisted Architecture to empower teams and measure technical impact against business KPIs.
Key Responsibilities
- Leadership & Governance: Guide and mentor backend teams and tech leads, chairing Architecture Review Board (ARB) sessions.
- Design & Resilience: Design decoupled architectures, microservices, BFF (Backend-for-Frontend), and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) models capable of supporting high volumes of concurrent users.
- Standardization & Innovation: Define standards using Spec-Driven Development (OpenAPI, GraphQL, AsyncAPI) and drive the integration of Artificial Intelligence tools (AI-Driven Engineering) into the software development lifecycle.
Key Requirements
- Experience: 10+ years in Backend development and 5+ years in management or architecture leadership roles.
- Cloud & Containers: Strong expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP; Kubernetes and API Gateways.
- Patterns & Events: DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Kafka/MSK, EventBridge, Temporal/Camunda.
- Persistence: SQL databases (PostgreSQL/Aurora), NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB), Caching (Redis), and Vector DBs.
- AI for Engineering: Experience with and integration of tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or Amazon Q.
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or New Relic.