Backend Tech Lead, Core API & Large-Scale Data

HockeyStack, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

HockeyStack, Inc. in San Francisco seeks a Backend Tech Lead to architect and scale core API infrastructure powering Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success. You will handle 60+ TB of GTM data, delivering low-latency, high-availability APIs for internal apps and dashboards.

This in-person, senior role emphasizes ownership, fast delivery, and mentoring engineers. The salary is $200,000–$240,000 USD base annually.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally with exposure to high-scale systems.
• Deep experience with modern backend stacks – Node.js, ClickHouse and AWS.
• Strong understanding of API design principles, query optimization, and distributed systems.
• You've worked with large-scale data systems (TBs of data) and know how to manage performance, cost, and uptime at scale.
• Startup mindset – you move fast, figure things out, and don’t wait to be told what to do.
• Comfortable owning ambiguity – you define the problem, architect the solution, and ship the result.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of APIs that expose GTM data to internal and external users.
• Own end-to-end architecture for large-scale data access patterns, optimizing for performance, cost, and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with AI, data, and frontend teams to ensure seamless integrations and clean API contracts.
• Tackle complex problems like versioning, rate-limiting, auth, query complexity, and cache invalidation across a fast-evolving product surface.
• Build internal tooling to improve engineering velocity and observability for our backend systems.
• Drive engineering best practices, code quality, and testing in a fast-paced, high-output environment.
• Mentor engineers and set the technical direction for the team.

Skills

Backend engineering

Node.js

ClickHouse

AWS

API design

Distributed systems

Large-scale data

Ownership mindset

In-person collaboration

Job description

HockeyStack, Inc. in San Francisco seeks a Backend Tech Lead to architect and scale core API infrastructure powering Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success. You will handle 60+ TB of GTM data, delivering low-latency, high-availability APIs for internal apps and dashboards.

This in-person, senior role emphasizes ownership, fast delivery, and mentoring engineers. The salary is $200,000–$240,000 USD base annually.