Technical Lead - Backend Engineering
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Company: FinTech Innovations
Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid)
Experience: 7+ years

About FinTech Innovations
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We're revolutionizing the payments industry with our modern API-first platform.
Our technology processes millions of transactions daily for clients worldwide.

Role Overview
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We're seeking a Technical Lead to guide our backend engineering team. You'll be
responsible for technical direction, architecture decisions, and mentoring
engineers while still contributing hands-on code.

Responsibilities
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* Lead a team of 5-7 backend engineers
* Drive architectural decisions for our microservices platform
* Own technical roadmap and coordinate with product management
* Design and implement scalable APIs and services
* Establish coding standards and best practices
* Conduct code reviews and mentor junior engineers
* Collaborate with security team on compliance requirements
* Participate in incident response and post-mortems

Technical Requirements
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* 7+ years of software engineering experience
* 2+ years in a technical lead or senior role
* Expert-level Python or Go programming
* Experience designing and building microservices architectures
* Strong knowledge of REST API design and gRPC
* Database expertise (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
* Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
* Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS or GCP)

Leadership Skills
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* Proven ability to mentor and develop engineers
* Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
* Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
* Track record of delivering complex projects on time

Preferred Experience
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* Financial services or payments domain experience
* Experience with PCI-DSS compliance
* Knowledge of event-driven architectures
* Experience with feature flags and A/B testing
* Contributions to engineering culture initiatives

Compensation
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* Base salary: $180,000 - $220,000
* Annual bonus: 15-25%
* Equity package
* Comprehensive benefits
