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Backend & Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead (Node.js / AWS)

CommIT Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel

Software Development · 501-1,000 employees

6 h ago
nodejs Principal (10+ yrs) Full-time Israel
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About the role

You will lead a team of backend and infrastructure engineers while overseeing the architecture and scaling of microservices on AWS. This role involves balancing people management with hands-on technical leadership to ensure high performance, reliability, and effective delivery cycles.

What they look for

Node.js AWS TypeScript Microservices Team Leadership Cloud Infrastructure Docker Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD System Architecture Agile Methodologies Observability Incident Response People Management Distributed Systems

Requirements

The ideal candidate has over 8 years of industry experience, including at least 5 years in a leadership role and 3 years of production backend development with TypeScript/Node.js. You must possess deep hands-on knowledge of AWS services, container orchestration, and infrastructure as code.

Full description

We are looking for Backend & Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead (Node.js / AWS). You'll lead the team that owns Questar's AWS cloud infrastructure and the backend microservices running on it. Hands-on leadership: roughly 60% people management, 40% staying close to architecture. You're accountable for how our microservices are designed, deployed, scaled and kept alive in production.

What You'll Do:

  • Lead, mentor and grow a team of backend and infrastructure engineers: 1:1s, goals, performance reviews, career development
  • Own the architecture of the AWS environment and the microservices platform on it, from design through rollout
  • Break large initiatives into workstreams, delegate ownership, hold the team to delivery commitments without micromanaging
  • Run agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retros, grooming) and align roadmap and priorities with product and other engineering leads
  • Set and enforce engineering standards: code review, testing, observability, incident response, on-call rotation
  • Drive cost, performance and reliability improvements across the platform
  • Take part in hiring: interviewing, calibration, onboarding

Requirements

Must-Have:

  • 8+ years of industry experience
  • 5+ years as a people manager / team lead, leading engineering teams through full delivery cycles
  • 3+ years of production backend development in TypeScript / Node.js (APIs, services, background processing, data flows). Frontend or frontend-leaning full-stack does not count
  • Proven experience designing and leading AWS solutions at scale for distributed microservices — able to walk through a system you architected end to end and defend the trade-offs
  • Deep hands-on knowledge of core AWS: ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, API Gateway, VPC networking, IAM
  • Containers and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes or ECS
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipeline ownership
  • Production ownership: monitoring, alerting, on-call, post-incident reviews
  • Strong grounding in agile, and the judgment to know when to bend it
  • Excellent written and spoken English

Nice-to-Have:

  • Kafka / event-driven architecture at scale
  • Multi-region or multi-account AWS setups
  • Database performance tuning at scale (Postgres, DynamoDB)
  • Security and compliance exposure (SOC 2, ISO 27001)

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