Backend Tech Lead

A Backend Tech Lead at Accellor owns the design, delivery, and long-term health of scalable, distributed backend systems while leading and growing the engineers who build them. This is a hands-on technical role with real people-management responsibility: you set technical direction, drive delivery across one or more squads, and actively mentor and unblock the engineers reporting into you. You are equally comfortable in a design review, a 1:1, and a production incident. 

Responsibilities 

Technical Leadership & Architecture 

• Own the architecture for backend services and platforms — microservices boundaries, API contracts, data models, and inter-service communication patterns. 

• Make and document key technical decisions (build vs. buy, sync vs. async, consistency vs. availability trade-offs) and align teams around them. 

• Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, testing ...