Job Description
What’s in it for you:
We are looking for an innovative, mission-driven Technical Lead with strong backend engineering, data pipeline, design, and architecture experience to make a significant impact by designing and delivering AWS cloud-native solutions that enable analysts to forecast long- and short-term trends in the automotive industry. This role requires hands-on technical depth, proven experience in solution design and system architecture, and the ability to lead engineering teams in a fast-paced, collaborative, and dynamic environment.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, architecture, development, and maintenance of scalable backend services, data pipelines, and complex engineering solutions
- Design and build scalable, resilient, and maintainable data pipelines to support large-volume data ingestion, transformation, processing, and delivery across cloud-native platforms
- Optimize data pipelines for performance, throughput, cost efficiency, monitoring, and fault tolerance while ensuring secure and governed data movement
- Architect and build high-performance UI backend services using Python and Flask ensuring scalability, reliability, and responsiveness
- Ensure data quality and integrity through robust validation processes
- Strong understanding of data integration and data modeling concepts
- Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, review designs and code, and drive engineering best practices across the team
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, data scientists, analysts, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust technical designs
- Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to optimize data flow and storage for advanced analytics
- Take ownership of key modules and architecture decisions, ensuring timely delivery, high quality, maintainability, and alignment with software development best practices
What We’re Looking For:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related field
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical direction
- Minimum 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with strong exposure to backend development, data engineering, advanced analytics, or cloud-native platforms
- Proven experience in technical leadership, solution design, system architecture, design reviews, and mentoring engineering teams
- Ability to define scalable architecture patterns, evaluate technical trade-offs, and guide teams through complex implementation decisions
- Proficiency in Python and experience with Flask for backend development.
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming.
- AWS Proficiency is Mandatory: ECR, Containerization, Batch, Step Functions, Redis, Dynamodb
- Experience with SQL and data warehousing is desirable
- Experience with data manipulation libraries and analytical frameworks such as such as Spark, Pandas, Polars, NumPy, Metaflow
- Experience with Gitlab CI/CD or similar tools for continuous integration and deployment