Backend Engineering Team Lead
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Job description
A Backend Engineering Team Lead role at Netcraft to establish and lead a new backend team responsible for several key products, including the Integration Layer, NSI, the Web and SSL Server Survey, and Spam. The role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering and delivery of a roadmap.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Working with Product and Design colleagues to evaluate each product, determining where immediate improvements can be made and helping to develop the long-term strategy for each
- Operating with autonomy, taking the initiative to solve problems and recognising the importance of adhering to demanding delivery timelines
- Managing requirements from key stakeholders and customers, understanding what needs to be done based on business needs without necessarily needing to be told
- Prioritising, refining, and sequencing the team's workflow while retaining approximately 30–50% of your time for hands-on engineering
- Deeply embedded in conceiving and executing engineering solutions, creating performant systems and services to delight our customers
- Upholding high engineering standards with a demonstrable commitment to code quality, a test-driven approach, and a modern continuous integration/continuous deployment delivery flow
- Well-versed in how AI-first development techniques can materially boost productivity
- Responsible for building and leading a high-performing team of talented and enthusiastic engineers
What we're looking for
- Strong and demonstrable leadership skills, with a constructive attitude to problem-solving and the ability to switch effectively between priorities
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to distil technical concepts for a range of stakeholders and motivate a team
- A strong engineering background spanning a range of technologies, including Go, OpenSearch, and MongoDB
- A demonstrable track record of identifying opportunities to create significant value within existing products and taking ideas from concept through to production
- Experience partnering closely with Product Managers and Product Owners to shape product strategy, define priorities, and translate customer and business needs into effective technical solutions
- Experience working with AWS technologies and a range of machine learning tools and frameworks
- An interest in reverse-engineering codebases, where necessary, to understand the inner workings of legacy products
- Experience interviewing and hiring engineers, building effective teams, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement
Nice to have
- Perl experience considered an advantage
- Strong Go development skills, particularly in technology modernisation or uplift projects
- Experience with generative AI technologies
Your team
Backend Engineering
A new backend team responsible for several key Netcraft products, including the Integration Layer, NSI, the Web and SSL Server Survey, and Spam.
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About Netcraft
The global leader in cybercrime detection and disruption
Netcraft is the global leader in cybercrime detection and disruption. We're a trusted partner for three of the four largest companies in the world and many large governments. We've blocked over 225 million cyber-attacks to date, and we take down around 33% of the world's phishing attacks.
Mission
Protecting the world from cybercrime
Key facts
- cybercrime detection and disruption
- Trusted partner for three of the four largest companies in the world and many large governments
- Blocked over 225 million cyber-attacks to date
- Takes down around 33% of the world's phishing attacks