Lead Developer - Backend

Responsibilities:
Act as a mentor to R& D technical leaders.
Apply broad expertise and knowledge in highly specialized fields or several related disciplines.
Lead and contribute to the development of company objectives and principles to achieve goals in creative and effective ways.
Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility.
Requirements:
You're a highly advanced software developer who makes important product decisions regarding direction and scope.
You make strategic decisions about which team members should work on which areas of a project, and provide technical and professional leadership for the developers.
You identify and collaborate with multiple teams or organizations, and have a deep understanding of software systems that span multiple teams. In addition, you are comfortable presenting to the executive team.
Significant experience working on backend systems.
Excited about working in the big data space.
Relevant experience developing software in either Python, Go, or other similar languages.
Comprehensive experience in software development of event-driven services and web APIs.
Experience with Amazon Web Services or other cloud platforms, preferably with distributed object storage and parallel computing (S3 Lambda, DynamoDB).
Ability to work cohesively within a team and habitually spread knowledge in various forms (verbally, documentation).
Ability, comfort, and interest in picking up new technologies and frameworks that you may not be familiar with.
Understanding of Kubernetes.

Experience
5-9 yrs