Backend Team Lead - Remote

At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 240 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. We believe that all businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data

For more than a decade, Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use tools to collect, format, and deliver web data, quickly, dependably, and at scale. And today, the data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage, and drive sustainable growth. Today, over 3,000 companies and 1 million developers rely on our tools and services to get the data they need from the web.

About the Job:

We have established products that already have a product-market fit where you’ll help to grow the business and stay up to date with market demands. At the same time, you’ll be working to iterate quickly on testing new opportunities to help determine which are worth continued investment. We’re a data-driven team that defines success by business results rather than completion of a task. Finally, you’ll excel in this role as an independent thinker who can always find a way to move projects forward, even if you might be the only team member online at that time.

About the team:

The Platform team consists of frontend and backend developers who work together designing, building, and maintaining our customer-facing application and tools to make the world a better place for web crawler developers. We’re a team that values collaboration and helping each other. We meet consistently to discuss problems and brainstorm solutions. We maintain quality through collaborative development and code review, and everybody’s ideas about development and architecture are welcome. We have an open forum where everyone can express themselves. We also value trust. We are trusted as developers and we take responsibility and ownership for the work we do. We have the flexibility to organize our work and the freedom to choose the tools we like most.

We organize ourselves in cross-functional pods, where each group works collaboratively to achieve the same mission and goals.

Requirements

• Extensive years of technical engineering experience with Python development and web application technologies such as Django, or FastAPI. 
• Strong experience working on designing, and optimizing RESTful APIs for high performance.
• Strong experience with cloud technologies such as AWS or GCP and container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Working experience with designing and developing server-side web applications in multiple platforms and architectures. 
• Strong experience with data pipelines and distributed message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Demonstrated working experience troubleshooting critical production systems under load.
• You are an observability ninja, bringing your A+  monitoring and data-driven game.
• You have a passion for software quality and security.  Commitment to quality and a fine eye for detail. 
• Proficient in industry-standard software tools like Git, and experienced in SaaS collaboration platforms like JIRA.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Proven success in leading dynamic teams in fast-paced environments, showcasing strong organizational skills and remote work experience
• Strong experience hiring, interviewing talent and building high performing teams.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, in English.
  
  Roles & Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of software developers autonomously, focusing on talent development and fostering a robust team culture, based on trust and transparent communication.
• Support career growth plans and establish an open work environment
• Proactively identify and eliminate productivity bottlenecks
• Comfortable taking ownership in business-critical situations; you enjoy being the “go-to” person, and you’re ready to act as Incident Commander to guide your team to resolve a critical incident. 
• Gain expert domain knowledge of products and platform
• Review existing architecture and drive technical designs
• Maintain a productive codebase for team productivity
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues affecting the customer experience.
• Lead complex development efforts and provide insightful feedback during code reviews
• Use best practices to write clean, maintainable and secure code. 
• Own the technical aspects of release management.
• Implement cutting-edge testing techniques for top-notch quality, collaborating with the Product QA team to ensure excellent user experiences
• Translate business requirements into architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with other teams to enhance customer experience across  our product portfolio.
• Facilitate planning, gathering stakeholder requirements, and offering swift feedback
• Take charge of quarterly deadlines, adjust plans for team capacity, and devise contingencies for understaffing
• Gather and analyze key metrics for tracking performance indicators and risk areas. 

Benefits

By joining the Zyte team, you will:

• Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team.
• Have the freedom & flexibility to work remotely.
• Get the chance to work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools.