Technical Lead, Backend Engineering

The Role

We're hiring a hands-on Technical Lead to take our AI-driven data centre infrastructure platform from prototype to production. This isn't a maintenance role, you'll architect, build, deploy, and scale the backend, own critical infrastructure decisions, and stay hands-on in implementation. Startup pace, high ownership, wearing multiple hats.

Key Responsibilities

• Own platform architecture and lead the transition from prototype to production-grade deployment
• Design and run cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps automation for reliable operations
• Build and maintain backend systems, APIs, orchestration services, and operational tooling
• Translate thermal, power, and closed-loop control requirements into platform architecture (no direct OT/industrial-systems engineering required)
• Support optimization and ML systems involving multi-objective decision-making
• Set the bar for security, uptime, observability, and incident response
• Give realistic estimates and flag risks or scope changes early, not after they've become a problem
• As we grow: mentor, weigh in on hiring, and help set technical standards

Requirements

• 6+ years in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with real product experience (no formal "lead" title required if you're ready to act like one)
• Track record taking a product from MVP to production
• Strong hands-on cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP), plus CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and Docker/Kubernetes
• Solid backend/API development and experience running high-uptime production systems
• Security and infrastructure-hardening fluency
• Startup experience — comfortable operating independently with ambiguity
• Realistic scoping/estimation, and a habit of surfacing risk early
• Depth in at least one of: optimization/ML infrastructure, multi-objective decision systems, or telemetry/monitoring at scale

Nice to Have

• Background in AI infrastructure, data centers, energy systems, or industrial automation
• Real-time orchestration, distributed systems, or edge computing
• MILP solvers or operational AI/optimization frameworks
• Liquid cooling, thermal optimization, or power-aware infrastructure
• Battery management, power electronics, or energy dispatch systems
• Founding engineer / early-stage technical leadership experience
• SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance framework familiarity

Benefits

• Milestone-based performance bonus
• Stock options
• Extended health and dental
• Real room to grow as the engineering org scale