Senior​/Lead Backend Engineer

Exciting fast growth tech company in the tech‑for‑good and medical space is expanding their software team and looking to hire a Senior/Lead Backend Engineer

Their product crosses the area of IoT, GPS and Computer Vision, with a solution that can aid millions of people worldwide.

This autonomous role involves taking ownership of their backend and cloud platform practices and structure, implementing methodologies, designing the architecture from the ground up, and establishing backend engineering culture.

You will lead the Architecture, design and migration from their current Firebase setup to a robust, scalable GCP architecture capable of handling high‑frequency time‑series and image data from thousands of edge devices.

You will work closely with Robotics and Computer Vision Engineers to build scalable, production‑ready cloud APIs, plus establish foundational backend engineering practices, setting up CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and deployment protocols from scratch.

Because their users rely on their critical technology to navigate safely in the real world, downtime or high latency is not an option. They need an experienced builder who knows how to design highly resilient systems that handle critical, high‑frequency data.

Key skills/experience required:

• 5–10 years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend and system architecture.
• Strong expertise in Python
• Deep Cloud platform experience with GCP, specifically deploying containerized applications using Docker and Cloud Run.
• Proven track record working with high‑frequency time‑series data and ideally managing fleets of edge devices (IoT/Robotics).
• Experience designing and maintaining highly resilient, low‑latency systems where uptime is critical.
• Experience with C++ would be ideal
• Experience in Firebase, iOS, Swift, GPS, GNSS, IoT, connected devices would be fantastic

This is a fabulous opportunity to take on a pivotal role in scaling this platform/product to enable it to reach more users and improve their daily lives!