Senior Backend Technical Lead - TypeScript, NestJS & AWS

Second Talent; Indonesia; Remote; IDR 2,146,691,000 - 3,220,036,000; Full time

Job summary

Second Talent is seeking a Technical Lead to drive the architecture and delivery of our backend platform. This role blends hands-on engineering with leadership, mentoring engineers and ensuring high-quality execution across projects.

You will lead scalable backend systems design, provide technical guidance to backend, QA, and DevOps teams, and review architecture decisions, code quality, and deployment strategies while coordinating multiple engineering workstreams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and NestJS.
• Experience designing high-availability distributed systems.
• Hands-on leadership and mentoring capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of scalable backend systems.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers across backend, QA, and DevOps functions.
• Review architecture decisions, code quality, and deployment strategies.
• Coordinate delivery across multiple engineering workstreams.
• Drive best practices in TypeScript, NestJS, AWS, and PostgreSQL.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

NestJS

AWS

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Second Talent is seeking a Technical Lead to drive the architecture and delivery of our backend platform. This role blends hands-on engineering with leadership, mentoring engineers and ensuring high-quality execution across projects.

You will lead scalable backend systems design, provide technical guidance to backend, QA, and DevOps teams, and review architecture decisions, code quality, and deployment strategies while coordinating multiple engineering workstreams.