Tech Lead - Backend, Frontend & Beyond - Fully Remote

Tech Lead - Backend, Frontend & Beyond - Fully Remote

Remote | Full-Time | EdTech Startup | Contract-to-Hire on Upwork

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

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.