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LeadFull-timeNode.jsAWSGoAIAPI
Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Backend Tech Lead to join the Data API team at HockeyStack. You will architect and scale our core API infrastructure that powers mission-critical workflows for Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success teams.
Key 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
- →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 environment
- →Mentor engineers and set the technical direction for the team
Requirements
- ✓5+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally with exposure to high-scale systems
- ✓Deep experience with modern backend stacks – we use Node.js, ClickHouse and AWS
- ✓Strong understanding of API design principles, query optimization, and distributed systems
- ✓Experience with large-scale data systems (TBs of data) and managing performance, cost, and uptime at scale
- ✓Startup mindset – move fast, figure things out, and don’t wait to be told what to do
- ✓Comfortable owning ambiguity – define the problem, architect the solution, and ship the result
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