Team lead

Svix; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing tech startup is seeking a Tech Lead to enhance product scalability and team performance. This fully remote position emphasizes not only coding but also making impactful technical decisions, mentoring engineers, and ensuring a seamless developer experience. The ideal candidate will have experience with high-scale backend systems, effective leadership skills, and familiarity with Rust, Postgres, and Redis. Join a dynamic team to shape the future of server communication in an agile environment.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing high-scale backend systems.
• Proven leadership in technical settings or teams.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex architectures effectively.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy high-quality backend code.
• Develop new products and features ensuring stability.
• Lead team through management and execution.

Skills

High-scale backend systems design

Technical and architectural skills

Software and API design

Team leadership

Communication skills

Collaboration skills

Rust

Postgres

Redis

Job description

About Svix

Svix is a fast-growing tech startup building the future of server to server communications. Our customers include industry leaders like Brex, Lob, Benchling, Drata, and the Fortune 500.

We have raised $11m from top investors such as a16z, Y Combinator, and founders and CTO of companies such as Github, Segment, Lookout and Fly.io.

We are fully remote, with most of the team spread across the US, with presence in NYC and SF.

About the Role

We're looking for a top performing Tech Lead to help scale our product and team. This role is about more than just writing great code, you'll make key technical decisions, tackle complex problems, and mentor engineers while ensuring we deliver a top-notch developer experience.

If you thrive in high-impact environments and want to build something meaningful with a team that moves fast, we'd love to chat.

If you are a top performer who wants to do the best job of their life surrounded by others doing the same, this is the place for you.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and deploy high-quality backend code in a fast-paced environment.
• Develop and scale new products and new product features while ensuring stability and performance.
• Own technical challenges, making decisions that balance speed, reliability, and maintainability.
• Lead the team through management, sprint planning, mentoring, and execution.
• Optimize infrastructure, databases, and system architecture for high availability and efficiency.
• This role is a player-coach (we expect this person to spend ~80% of the time coding).

What We're Looking For

• Experience designing and building high-scale backend systems.
• Strong technical, architectural, and troubleshooting skills.
• Good "taste" for software and API design.
• Proven ability to lead teams, organize projects, and drive execution.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Prior experience as a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or similar leadership role.
• Experience with Rust, Postgres, and Redis (or ability to ramp up quickly).

General Guidelines

• We like candidates with varied backgrounds - don't be shy, apply!
• Hackers / OSS devs welcome, even without extensive work history. Checkout our OSS repo on Github.
• Please include a few words on why you'd like to work at Svix.
• All roles are full-time - no students or part-time.