Tech Lead, Core Product Engine (Backend)

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Tech Lead, Core Product Engine (Backend) in Canada.

This role sits at the heart of a large-scale consumer mobility platform focused on simplifying complex, real-world ownership journeys. You will lead backend systems that orchestrate high-stakes, multi-step transactions with external providers in a fragmented ecosystem. The work involves solving deep challenges in asynchronous workflows, reliability, and distributed system design. You will guide the evolution of critical automation systems that power end-to-end purchase and service flows. This is a hands-on leadership role combining architecture ownership with active coding and technical execution. The environment is fast-moving, product-driven, and highly data-informed, with strong emphasis on autonomy and impact. You will collaborate closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to shape scalable, fault-tolerant systems used by millions of users.

You will lead the design and evolution of backend systems that orchestrate complex external and internal workflows, ensuring reliability, scalability, and resilience in high-stakes transaction flows. You will define technical direction for core automation systems, refactoring legacy components into modular, testable, and fault-tolerant architectures. You will work closely with product and engineering stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust system designs and execution plans.

• Architect and evolve distributed backend systems handling asynchronous, multi-step transactions with external integrations
• Lead refactoring efforts to improve scalability, observability, and maintainability of core automation systems
• Drive system design decisions across APIs, orchestration layers, and event-driven workflows
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product goals into technical execution strategies
• Ensure reliability through strong patterns for failure handling, retries, and state management
• Mentor engineers and provide hands-on technical leadership through code reviews and pair development
• Contribute directly to implementation, debugging, and optimization of critical backend services

Requirements

You bring strong experience as a backend or technical lead in complex, distributed systems, ideally in high-scale consumer or platform environments. You are highly skilled in system design and comfortable owning architecture decisions end-to-end while still contributing hands-on code. You thrive in ambiguous environments where deep debugging, edge-case discovery, and iterative improvement are essential.

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with leadership or tech lead responsibilities
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript (Nest.js) or similar backend frameworks
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures
• Deep understanding of asynchronous workflows, state management, and fault tolerance
• Hands-on experience with AWS or similar cloud infrastructure (ECS, EKS, Lambda)
• Strong problem-solving mindset with ability to debug complex business logic systems
• Experience working in high-scale, data-rich consumer or platform environments
• Excellent communication skills and ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong ownership mindset with a bias toward action and delivery

Benefits

• Competitive base salary with equity opportunities
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off, parental leave, and wellness benefits
• 401(k) or equivalent retirement savings plan with employer matching
• Flexible work arrangements and remote-first culture
• Learning and development support
• High-impact role with strong ownership and fast execution cycles.