Backend Team Leader-Data Platform

• Inspire and mentor a top-tier data engineering team to deliver mission-critical solutions
• Architect and optimize data ingestion, enrichment, and storage for massive scale and reliability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and data availability
• Define best practices and enforce engineering excellence across the data domain
• Champion GenAI adoption across the team's SDLC, and build a clear point of view on where it genuinely helps and where it doesn't
• Foster a culture of innovation — create space for the team to explore new ideas, test technologies, and challenge the status quo
• Constantly raise the bar on quality, velocity, and engineering rigor across the team
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, with strong knowledge of streaming technologies (Kafka/MSK, Flink) and distributed systems on AWS
• 2+ years of leadership experience in data engineering or related fields
• Strong development skills in Java and deep understanding of data modeling, ETL, and real-time analytics
• Working fluently with GenAI tools across the development lifecycle, with the judgment to guide the team on where they add real value
• Experience with React - advantage
• A natural leader with strong communication skills and a can-do, hands-on approach
• BSc in computer science/software engineering
• Fluent English (written & spoken)

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