DealRoom Inc - Tech Lead Engineer (Backend)
Requirements
• 5+ years building production backend systems in Python. Strong in API design, PostgreSQL, and clean, well-tested code. • You've led a team (formally or informally) and owned team outcomes, not just your own output. You set standards, drive quality, and ensure responsible delivery. • You ship and learn, not plan and perfect. Comfortable with ambiguity. You help the team pick a direction, start iterating, and course-correct based on what you learn. You know where to cut corners and can explain the tradeoffs. • Product-minded. You think in user outcomes, not tasks. You ask "why" and "for whom" before "how." • Good English communication skills. Clear async writing, ability to explain complex technical ideas simply, effective across timezones. Engineers are in EU, PMs and customers are in US. • Can contribute across the full stack when needed — you understand frontend constraints and how backend decisions impact UX. • Practical experience shipping AI-powered features — LLM APIs, prompt engineering, RAG. You use AI tools in your own workflow. • Tech stack: AWS, Django, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Vue
Responsibilities
• Participate in all aspects of product development — from discovery and architecture to implementation, testing, and deployment. • Partner with PM on product direction: join customer calls, validate feasibility, shape what gets built. • Write code daily. You're hands-on in the codebase. • Own technical standards for your team — code quality, architecture decisions, monitoring, definition of done. • Break down ambiguous product goals into shippable increments. Drive iteration cadence.
Benefits
• Lead a product team end-to-end in a company where engineering has real impact on product direction • Work in a small, high-caliber team where your decisions shape the product and the platform • Profitable, disciplined growth company — no VC pressure, sustainable pace • Strong product-market fit with significant expansion opportunity • Help build the engineering culture and practices as we scale • Remote work, with some overlap with US east business hours • Competitive PTO • Career development support and learning budget • Equity, bonus plans • Work device provided
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