Serverless Guru LLC.

Backend Lead Developer

Wilmington, DE

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago

TypeScriptNode.jsDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentNoSQLMongoDBElasticsearchDynamoDBAWSTerraformAI OrchestrationLeadership

About the role

About the Role We are looking for a strong Backend Lead Developer to join our personalization engineering team for a large enterprise hospitality platform. Our team owns core backend services that power personalized digital experiences across multiple internal and customer-facing systems. These services support recommendation, eligibility, workflow
orchestration, API-driven experiences, and cloud-based platform capabilities used by other teams across the organization. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will not be managing people directly, but you will be expected to lead technical decisions, own backend architecture, guide other engineers, and drive high-quality execution across

Lead backend architecture and technical design for personalization platform services.
Design and build cloud-native backend APIs using TypeScript, Node.js, AWS Lambda, and API Gateway.
Build and maintain services that support personalized experiences, eligibility rules, recommendations, and workflow-driven platform capabilities.
Review designs and code with a focus on reliability, scalability, maintainability, and production readiness.
Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, QA, and other engineering teams.
You will not be managing people directly, but you will be expected to lead technical decisions, own backend architecture, guide other engineers, and drive high-quality execution across complex backend systems.

7+ years of backend engineering experience.
Strong experience with AWS serverless architecture.
Experience with AWS Step Functions or similar workflow orchestration systems.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
Experience with Serverless Framework or similar deployment frameworks.
Strong understanding of NoSQL databases, especially DynamoDB or similar systems.
Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role.
The ideal candidate communicates effectively and can confidently navigate complex technical challenges.
Work on complex serverless workflows using AWS Step Functions and related AWS services.
Help migrate, modernize, and improve backend services in the cloud.
Work with databases and search systems such as DynamoDB, DocumentDB/MongoDB-style databases, OpenSearch, or Elasticsearch.
Define backend patterns, engineering standards, and reusable approaches for the team.
Improve observability, debugging, reliability, and operational quality of backend services.
Mentor engineers technically and help the team make better architectural decisions.

We are looking for a strong Backend Lead Developer to join our personalization engineering team for a large enterprise hospitality platform.
We are looking for an engineer who takes ownership, develops a deep understanding of production systems, thinks beyond individual tasks, and focuses on delivering scalable, long-term technical solutions.

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