Job Title: Technology Head – Backend

Job Overview

Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Management

• Onboard and train backend and technical staff
• Actively participate in backend development alongside the team — writing, reviewing, and shipping production code
• Assign and oversee daily tasks of technical personnel, ensuring alignment with project milestones
• Hold regular team meetings to track progress and address challenges
• Define clear deliverables, roles, and responsibilities across the team
• Establish and implement training processes and strategies for all technical personnel
• Provide guidance and insight to upper management and procure stakeholder buy-in
• Report progress, including any changes made to plans and production timelines
• Work closely with the project manager to ensure timely and on-budget delivery

Architecture & System Design

• Own and evolve the overall backend architecture, ensuring it is scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business goals
• Review and approve architecture designs proposed by the team before implementation
• Lead architectural discussions, design reviews, and technical decision-making across projects
• Define and enforce architecture standards, patterns, and best practices across microservices
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, frameworks, or architectural patterns where appropriate
• Ensure proper separation of concerns, API design standards, and data modeling across services
• Guide the team in designing fault-tolerant, event-driven, and asynchronous systems where applicable

Google Cloud Platform & Firebase

• Lead backend development and operations on GCP, with deep expertise in Google Cloud Functions as the primary microservices runtime
• Oversee Firebase services including Firestore, Firebase Auth, Realtime Database, Firebase Storage, and Cloud Messaging
• Manage GCP services including Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and VPC configurations
• Define deployment strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and release processes on GCP
• Guide the team on best practices for cold start optimization, function composition, and stateless microservice design within Cloud Functions
• Oversee multi-environment setups (dev, staging, production) and ensure proper environment isolation

AWS Integration & Multi-Cloud Management

• Manage and maintain workloads running on AWS (e.g., S3, Lambda, EC2, RDS, or other services in use)
• Ensure seamless integration between GCP and AWS environments where cross-cloud dependencies exist
• Define clear boundaries and ownership between GCP-primary and AWS-secondary workloads
• Evaluate opportunities to consolidate or optimize across cloud providers based on cost and performance

Cost Optimization

• Continuously monitor and analyze cloud spending across GCP and AWS
• Identify and implement cost optimization strategies — including right-sizing, reserved capacity, function timeout tuning, cold start reduction, and eliminating idle resources
• Establish budgeting and alerting frameworks to prevent cost overruns
• Review architectural decisions through a cost-efficiency lens and guide the team to make cost-aware design choices
• Evaluate build-vs-buy trade-offs and third-party service costs periodically

Infrastructure, Security & Performance

• Oversee server performance monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning
• Define and enforce security best practices including IAM roles, least-privilege access, secret management, and API security
• Conduct and oversee code quality reviews; ensure code is bug-free and adheres to quality standards
• Implement logging, tracing, and observability standards across all microservices
• Manage incident response processes and drive post-mortem reviews for production issues
• Provide late night / off-hours support when needed for critical issues or production failures

Product & Delivery

• Contribute to product design, feature scoping, and technical requirement definition
• Oversee QA and user testing processes; report results and adjust requirements accordingly
• Deliver products consistently, on time, and within budget
• Ensure all new technology introductions are properly documented and relevant stakeholders are trained

Desired Skills

Technical

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform — especially Cloud Functions, Firestore, Firebase, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, and GCP IAM
• Solid working knowledge of Firebase services (Auth, Firestore, Storage, FCM, Remote Config)
• Experience with AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, RDS, or equivalent) and managing multi-cloud environments
• Deep expertise in microservices architecture — service decomposition, inter-service communication, event-driven patterns, and API design
• Proficiency in backend languages relevant to the stack (Node.js, Python, Go, or similar)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices on GCP (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or equivalent)
• Familiarity with cost monitoring tools (GCP Billing, AWS Cost Explorer) and optimization techniques
• Strong grasp of security principles — IAM, secrets management, OAuth2, and data protection

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow a technical team
• Strong architectural thinking with the ability to balance speed, scale, and simplicity
• Excellent communication skills — able to translate technical decisions for non-technical stakeholders
• Willingness to build professional relationships across teams and with clients
• Proactive problem-solving mindset with strong diagnostic and troubleshooting abilities
• Accountable, trustworthy, and able to build lasting relationships within the team