Team Lead - Backend Developer
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About the Role
Elevate your career as a Team Lead - Backend Developer in Doha, Qatar, where you will lead a talented team to create innovative backend solutions. Drive technical excellence and foster collaboration while designing scalable APIs and backend services that enhance our payment platform.
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Overview
- Lead and mentor a team of backend developers, providing technical guidance and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
- Architect and implement high-performance, secure APIs that power our payment platform.
- Drive technical decision-making, code quality standards, and best development practices across the team.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to architecture, security, and performance standards.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Identify technical risks and propose solutions to improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Oversee system architecture and contribute to long-term technical strategy.
- Manage and optimize server and database infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and guide the team in resolving them efficiently.
- Lead technical planning, sprint execution, and delivery in an agile development environment.
Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of backend development experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership or team lead role.
- Strong proficiency in PHP (preferred) or other backend languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, or .NET.
- Solid experience with relational databases (MySQL or similar).
- Strong experience designing and building RESTful APIs and scalable backend architectures.
- Experience working with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Aurora).
- Proven ability to lead development teams and manage technical delivery.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
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