[8BE] Team Lead Back End Engineering
Buenos Aires - Argentina
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Job Summary
Project - the aim youll have
We are seeking a highly autonomous engineer with a Platform Engineering mindset to take broad ownership of system-wide improvement. This project focuses on strengthening the core systems of a sophisticated AI-powered product. Rather than traditional feature-based development this initiative sits at the critical intersection of AI systems infrastructure and platform reliability. The team operates in a fast-moving early-stage style environment leveraging cutting-edge AI development tools to solve cross-cutting technical challenges. The mission is to evolve a complex codebase by improving observability enhancing the reliability of AI agents and ensuring the system can scale to meet high-performance demands.
If you enjoy solving complex technical problems across multiple domains and improving entire systems this opportunity is for you.
Qualifications :
Expectations - the experience you need
- 8 years of professional backend development including at least 4 years in a technical lead or team lead role
- Strong proficiency in C# / .NET ( Core Web 8) and clean architecture principles (DDD CQRS)
- Hands-on experience designing and building RESTful microservices at scale
- Solid understanding of multi-tenant SaaS architecture patterns
- Experience with AWS services: Lambda SQS/EventBridge S3 RDS/PostgreSQL or DynamoDB
- Familiarity with Identity & Auth patterns: JWT OAuth 2.0 OIDC; experience with Keycloak or similar identity providers
- Experience working in brownfield environments assessing and integrating with existing systems
- Experience with containerisation (Docker) and CI/CD pipeline management (Bitbucket Pipelines or equivalent)
- Strong team facilitation skills: sprint ceremonies code reviews cross-vendor alignment
Nice to have
- Excellent communication in English written and spoken for daily client interaction
- Experience in retail e-commerce or B2B commerce domains understanding of order lifecycle pricing models inventory management and multi-channel fulfilment
- Familiarity with headless or composable commerce architectures and front-end/backend API contract patterns
- Experience with marketplace integrations (Amazon SP-API Walmart Marketplace API)
- Background in promotional products print-on-demand or B2B e-commerce
- Experience working in distributed multi-vendor delivery models
What you will do
- Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers (36 engineers) setting technical direction and ensuring consistent delivery quality
- Own sprint planning backlog refinement and capacity management in Jira in close coordination with the clients Product and Delivery teams
- Drive architectural decisions across core backend services: Identity & Auth Order Management Pricing Inventory Catalog and Notifications
- Define and enforce engineering standards: code reviews branching strategy CI/CD pipelines and testing coverage (xUnit BDD/Reqnroll)
- Partner with the clients Project Manager and architects to align technical scope with POC MVP and full-launch phase boundaries
- Coordinate with the Shopify/Hydrogen front-end team and third-party vendors to ensure clean API contracts and integration points
- Navigate brownfield complexity assess existing legacy systems support migration planning and ensure backward compatibility where required
- Proactively identify surface and mitigate delivery risks dependencies and blockers
- Participate in client-facing stand-ups sprint reviews and technical design sessions
- Ensure environment parity and observability across Dev QA Integration Staging and Production (AWS-hosted)
Our Benefits
- Educational resources
- Flexible schedule and Work From Anywhere
- Referral Program
- Supportive and chill atmosphere
We are accepting applications from LATAM countries
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Additional Information :
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
Software Mind develops solutions that make an impact for companies around the globe. Tech giants & unicorns, transformative projects, emerging technologies and limitless opportunities these are a few words that describe an average day for us. Building cross-functional engineering te ... View more