Technical Lead, Backend Engineering
Full-time
Wafr Technologies LTD.
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
Vacancy posted 22 days ago
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