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

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)

Originally posted on Himalayas