Lead Backend Software Engineer

Company Profile We are a tech start-up building next-generation software and hardware for the luxury sector, combining interactive 3D, VR, video, and automation technologies to create immersive digital commerce experiences. Our mission is to redefine how premium brands engage, sell, and serve customers through elegant, high-performance technology. Role Overview We are looking for a full-time Lead Backend Software Engineer to help architect, build, and scale the core technology behind a modern ecommerce platform designed for premium customer experiences. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who is deeply effective, highly motivated, and excited by the opportunity to build something exceptional from an early stage. You should be the kind of engineer who moves fast without being reckless, cares about quality without getting stuck in perfectionism, and can turn ambiguous business goals into reliable, scalable systems. You will lead backend development across cloud infrastructure, APIs, data architecture, integrations, automation, and operational tooling. Our technology direction is centered on the Google Cloud ecosystem , and we are looking for someone who can use modern cloud-native tools intelligently while keeping the engineering approach practical, secure, and maintainable. What You’ll Do You will design and build the backend systems that power our ecommerce, content, automation, and customer experience capabilities. You will make important architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and help create a backend foundation that can support rapid product development as the company grows. You will work closely with product, design, frontend, hardware, and leadership teams to translate ambitious ideas into production-ready systems. You will also help shape how the engineering team works: using AI-assisted development, automated testing, continuous delivery, observability, documentation, and tight feedback loops to create a fast, modern, high-quality development process. This role is not about checking boxes on a long list of frameworks or languages. It is about judgment, ownership, technical taste, and execution. What We’re Looking For We are looking for someone with strong backend engineering experience, sound architectural instincts, and the ability to lead by example. You should be comfortable building cloud-based systems, designing APIs, working with databases, integrating third-party services, and thinking carefully about performance, reliability, security, and scalability. More importantly, you should bring energy, urgency, and pride in craft. You are hungry to build best-in-class products. You care about the customer experience, not just the code. You take responsibility for outcomes. You communicate clearly, make thoughtful trade-offs, and raise the standard of the people around you. You should be excited by the AI era of software development: using AI tools to move faster, improve quality, reduce repetitive work, strengthen documentation, and accelerate problem-solving while still applying strong engineering judgment. Ideal Traits You are highly self-directed, commercially aware, and comfortable in a start-up environment where priorities evolve quickly. You like solving hard problems, simplifying complexity, and creating systems that other people can build on with confidence. You do not need to know every technology on day one. You do need to learn quickly, make effective decisions, and consistently deliver work that moves the company forward. Why This Role Matters This is a foundational engineering role. The systems you build will directly shape the product, the customer experience, and the company’s ability to scale. For the right person, this is an opportunity to take ownership of a major technical platform from the ground up and help define what modern luxury ecommerce can become.