Software Team Leader

We're looking for a hands-on Software Team Leader to lead the Engagement team, owning the architecture, delivery, and production health of the OneLink serving path.Our stack is deliberately polyglot: Clojure, Go, Java, and Node, with the persistence layer chosen per problem across Kafka, Redis/ElastiCache, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and MongoDB. Everything runs on AWS (Kubernetes, multi-region), behind CDNs at the edgeWhat Youll Do:Lead, mentor, and grow a team of senior backend engineers, covering hiring, career growth, and honest feedback, while staying personally hands-on in architecture, design reviews, and code.Own the end-to-end design of the OneLink serving path.Own the edge layer together with Infra, including CDN strategy across branded and non-branded domain and edge compute.Own production, including SLOs, capacity, and cost efficiency at scale, and take part in the on-call rotation.Partner with Product, Data, and Infra to turn ambiguous requirements into a sequenced technical plan.Requirements: What You HaveEngineering experience: 5+ years of software development experience, with strong backend engineering skills.Leadership: 2+ years directly managing a team of software engineers, including hiring, performance, and growth conversations.High scale in production: Proven track record designing, building, and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.Cloud: Strong proficiency with AWS (or GCP/Azure) and modern deployment practice, including containers, Kubernetes, IaC, and CI/CD.Polyglot backend: Hands-on depth in at least one of Go, Clojure, Node, or Java, and genuine willingness to work across all of them.Multi-DB: Comfort with both relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL/caching (DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis/ElastiCache), with real opinions on when each is wrong.Streaming: Working knowledge of Kafka or equivalent, including partitioning, consumer groups, ordering, backpressure, and what happens when a consumer falls behind.B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent practical experienceBonus PointsDeep linking, mobile attribution, or URL routing experience (Universal Links, App Links, deferred deep linking).CDN and edge-compute work: CloudFront Functions, CloudFlare Workers, WAF rule design.Functional programming experience (Clojure, Scala, Erlang/Elixir).AdTech background.Track record on cost-efficiency at scale.This position is open to all candidates.