{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"25a41a9ebfa40fb7ce7af4d2","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/25a41a9ebfa40fb7ce7af4d2","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/25a41a9ebfa40fb7ce7af4d2","title":"Lead Backend Software Engineer","description":"Description:\nAbout SITE Technologies:\n\nSITE Technologies, founded in 2018, is on a mission to revolutionize facility management with cutting-edge AI solutions that empower enterprise customers to operate more efficiently.\n\nWe embrace a hybrid work culture, with remote and Chicago team members working seamlessly to deliver a great product to our customers. We believe in innovation, teamwork, and having fun along the way. Our Core Values define how our team shows up every day:\nSolve Impossible Problems\nEmbrace Empathy & Integrity\nOwn Your Outcome\nDo The Best Work of Our Lives\nTogether We Thrive\nIf you're looking to be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking team where your work makes an impact, come join us!\nWorking at SITE Technologies:\nSITE Technologies is seeking a hands-on Lead Backend Software Engineer to lead and grow a small backend team while personally building and evolving SITE's platform and related customer systems. This is a player-coach role: the Lead will directly manage 3 to 4 senior backend engineers, set technical direction, remain deeply involved in the architecture, implementation, quality, and operation of critical backend systems, and oversee nearshore engineers or consultants as the team evolves. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic, product-minded engineer and thoughtful people manager who can turn complex operational workflows and user needs into clear technical plans, reliable data models, stable API contracts, and delivered product outcomes. This person will partner closely with product managers, other technical teams, and business stakeholders to ship backend systems for geospatial data, imagery, asset workflows, reporting, third-party integrations, and AI product experiences.\nRequirements:\nWhat you'll do:\nLead the technical design and hands-on implementation of core backend APIs and services, primarily in Python and FastAPI\nSet architectural direction for domain models, relational schemas, service boundaries, data consistency, and API contracts\nTranslate product priorities into well-scoped delivery plans, milestones, and technical decisions\nPersonally lead critical-path development, code reviews, release planning, and incident response\nSet and maintain high standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, security, performance, and production reliability\nBuild reliable integrations across geospatial, media, reporting, asset management, and third-party vendor systems\nDevelop and maintain ETL and data migration processes for imagery, geospatial, and operational data\nDirectly manage 3 to 4 senior backend engineers through regular one-on-ones, feedback, performance management, and career development, while overseeing nearshore engineers or consultants as needed\nDelegate work effectively, remove delivery blockers, and ensure the team ships high-quality backend systems predictably\nPartner with product, frontend, data, operations, and QA teams to prioritize tradeoffs and deliver customer value\nHire, onboard, mentor, and develop strong backend engineers\nWhat We’re Looking For:\n7+ years of experience in backend development, with strong proficiency in Python\nDemonstrated experience as a hands-on technical lead while directly managing engineers\nVery strong ability to reason from first principles about backend architecture, workflow modeling, API boundaries, data consistency, security, and operational failure modes\nStrong product judgment and ability to turn ambiguous business needs into clear technical plans and deliverable milestones\nProven ability to mentor senior engineers, give direct feedback, and raise team performance\nStrong communication skills and ability to lead across product, frontend, data, operations, and business teams\nExperience building production APIs with FastAPI or similar Python frameworks\nStrong understanding of relational data modeling, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy or comparable ORM libraries, and database migration tools such as Alembic or Flyway\nExperience with AWS backend services such as ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, and related services\nExperience with Docker, Git, and designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools\nPractical fluency with AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor\nExceptional candidates also have:\nExperience working in a dynamic startup environment\nExperience managing distributed teams or external engineering partners\nKnowledge of infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform and Terragrunt\nExperience with observability tools such as Datadog and Sentry\nExperience designing authentication and authorization flows\nExperience with 2D and 3D geospatial data\nExperience with ETL pipeline development, data migration, or large-scale unstructured data processing\nExperience building agentic systems with tools such as LangGraph, Claude Code SDK, and Amazon Bedrock\nExperience modernizing legacy systems while preserving production behavior\nWhat we have to offer:\nThis is a remote, US based position that can be based in one of 18 states where SITE is an employer.\nA competitive base salary plus the opportunity to participate in SITE’s stock options plan.\nGenerous paid vacation and separate sick time banks.\nTen (10) Company holidays off plus two (2) floating holidays.\nTwo (2) paid days per year to do volunteer work.\nPaid parental leave benefits available after ninety (90) days of employment.\nEmployee health, dental, vision, life and short-term 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