Backend Tech Lead - Fullstack Architecture (Remote)

Far Coder; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Technical Leader (Fullstack Backend focused) for a fully remote, USA-based fintech role. You will shape backend architecture and the engineering roadmap while remaining hands-on, leading a team of engineers and collaborating with Product, Frontend, and DevOps to deliver robust APIs.

This senior role emphasizes ownership, AI-assisted development, scalable systems, and high-quality delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend development experience with at least 4 years in a technical leadership role.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js; experience with NestJS or Express.js.
• Proven track record building scalable APIs, backend services, and distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, data modeling, and query optimization.
• Experience with AWS, containerization, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and Kafka is a plus; AI tools in development encouraged.
• Experience mentoring engineers and setting technical standards; strong cross-functional collaboration.
• Solid understanding of security, observability, reliability, and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of engineers while establishing engineering practices.
• Partner with Product, Frontend, DevOps, and other teams to deliver scalable technical solutions.
• Architect, develop, and maintain high-performing backend services and APIs.
• Design systems for high availability, strong performance, security, scalability, and zero-downtime deployment.
• Own backend technical direction and roadmap decisions, balancing immediate delivery requirements with long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Strengthen system reliability through effective testing, monitoring, logging, observability, incident management, and performance optimization.
• Leverage AI tools, automation, and emerging technologies to improve developer productivity, engineering workflows, and end-user experiences.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies where they can meaningfully improve the platform, development process, or product.
• Translate business and product requirements into robust backend architectures and serve as a bridge between engineering and product stakeholders.

Skills

Backend leadership

TypeScript

Node.js

API design

Distributed systems

Database design

Cloud architecture

AI integration

Mentoring engineers

Tools

NestJS

Express.js

AWS

Kafka

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Technical Leader (Fullstack Backend focused) for a fully remote, USA-based fintech role. You will shape backend architecture and the engineering roadmap while remaining hands-on, leading a team of engineers and collaborating with Product, Frontend, and DevOps to deliver robust APIs.

This senior role emphasizes ownership, AI-assisted development, scalable systems, and high-quality delivery in a fast-paced environment.