Tech Lead - Backend, Frontend & Beyond - Fully Remote

Aladia; Italia; Remoto; EUR 30.000 - 50.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

An innovative EdTech startup is seeking a Tech Lead for a fully remote position. You will collaborate with the CTO, bridge multiple departments, and oversee various technical initiatives. Ideal candidates have 4+ years in a technical role, a strong generalist mindset, and proficiency in both Italian and English. This exciting opportunity offers a competitive compensation structure and pathways for career growth.

Servizi

Continuous learning opportunities

Long-term contract and career growth

Exposure to multicultural environments

Competenze

• 4+ years in a technical role (engineering, DevOps, product tech).
• Highly organized and proactive, thrives with autonomy.
• Passionate about startups, tech, and education.

Mansioni

• Collaborate daily with our CTO on technical and operational initiatives.
• Act as a bridge across departments: engineering, design, HR, etc.
• Design, implement, and improve internal tools and workflows.

Conoscenze

Production experience with RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC

Strong generalist mindset

Excellent communicator across technical and non-technical teams

Fluency or working proficiency in Italian and English

Strumenti

Google Cloud Platform

NestJS

Docker

Descrizione del lavoro

Tech Lead - Backend, Frontend & Beyond - Fully Remote

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About Us

Aladia is a rapidly growing e-learning platform based in Italy, on a mission to transform digital education globally. We're passionate about innovation, learner-centered design, and delivering exceptional online learning experiences that scale. Our international, remote-first team is united by a drive to build the future of education—one meaningful interaction at a time.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate daily with our CTO to support and scale technical and operational initiatives
• Act as a bridge across departments : engineering, design, HR, customer success, finance, and marketing
• Own our Authorization Models — RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC experience is a must
• Help design, implement, and improve internal tools, workflows, and documentation
• Tackle technical tasks or coordinate with dev teams as needed
• Participate in high-level strategy and planning, while handling hands-on execution
• Absorb cross-functional knowledge and gradually own more responsibility
• Contribute to scaling our infrastructure, systems, and team culture as we grow

Who You Are

4+ years in a technical role (engineering, DevOps, product tech)

Strong generalist mindset, ready to grow across functions

Highly organized and proactive, thrives with autonomy

Excellent communicator across technical and non-technical teams

Passionate about startups, tech, and education

Fluency or working proficiency in Italian and English

Must-Have Technical Skills

Authorization Models (MUST)

Production experience with RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC

Strong understanding of access control patterns and logic

Hands-on with CASL (frontend / backend)

Core Backend & System Architecture

NestJS microservices (20+ in production)

Microservice design patterns : API Gateway, BFF

Redis caching (DB and gateway level)

RESTful API development

Cloud & DevOps

Google Cloud Platform (App Engine, Pub / Sub)

Infrastructure scaling, monitoring, Linux, Bash & Python

Secure API design, authenticated communication flows

Data & Streaming

Real-time pipelines : MongoDB, GCP Functions, Pub / Sub

BigQuery, Google Cloud Dataflow (Apache Beam + Python)

Stream processing, fault tolerance

Testing & QA

Apidog, Playwright, Chromatic, BrowserStack

CI test integration, visual regression testing

Frontend Awareness

Vue / Nuxt integration, REST APIs

Knowledge of design tokens and scalable component libraries

Tools : Figma, Token Studio, Supernova

Bonus / Advanced Skills

Media processing : FFmpeg, cloud rendering APIs

Workflow automation : Make.com

Real-time systems : Socket.IO, TCP communication

AI integration : GPT APIs, prompt engineering, schema versioning

Stripe & 100ms APIs (payments & video conferencing)

Mobile dev (Flutter, React Native, or native)

Scrum + ClickUp or similar tools

Fluent / working proficiency in Italian

Previous experience in early-stage startups or EdTech

Contract Details

Work Schedule

Time Zone : 8 : 00 AM – 5 : 00 PM (Italy time)

Team : International, remote-first

Culture : High-performance, high-learning, highly collaborative

Perks & Benefits

Continuous learning opportunities

Long-term contract and career growth

Exposure to multicultural and cutting-edge tech environments

Pathway to leadership role alongside a supportive founding team

Compensation

28.00 – $35.00 / hour

40+ hrs / week, Contract-to-Hire via Upwork

Paid overtime for emergency or urgent projects

Ready to shape the future of digital learning while growing into a high-impact leadership role?

Apply now and become part of Aladia’s mission to change education for the better.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Education

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