Backend Technical Lead

Job Title: Backend Engineering Lead

Location: Bay Area

About Us:
WitnessAI is a fast-growing SaaS startup on a mission to enable enterprises to adopt AI, safely. We're building a product that provides security and governance guardrails for public and private LLMs. We're looking for a talented Golang Backend Engineering Lead / Manager to help build and maintain the core systems that power our products and lead the Backend Engineering Team. If you’re passionate about leading a backend development team and enjoy working on high-performance, scalable systems, we’d love to have you on our team.

Job Description:
As a Backend Engineering Lead / Manager at WitnessAI, you'll be responsible for developing and maintaining the backend services crucial to our platform. You'll work on scalable systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver new features and improvements. This role requires expertise in Golang, experience with distributed micro-service based systems, and a commitment to building efficient, reliable backend systems.  It also requires strong leadership skills, the ability to work with other team leads (e.g. UI, ML, Platform Engineering) and time estimation super powers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a small high performing backend services team

• Design, develop, and maintain backend micro services and APIs using Go (Golang).

• Build and optimize high-performance, scalable, and secure backend applications.

• Collaborate with frontend engineers and other stakeholders to define requirements and deliver solutions.

• Implement and maintain complicated data management solutions, including SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Develop and maintain an event driven microservices architecture, ensuring reliability and scalability.

• Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, from concept and design to deployment and maintenance.

• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code, following best practices in software development.

• Troubleshoot and debug production issues, providing quick resolutions to ensure system stability.

• Conduct code reviews to maintain code quality.

• Stay updated with the latest developments in AI, Golang, backend engineering, and high-performance scalable systems, continuously improving your and the teams skills and knowledge.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Proven team leadership and time estimation skills

• Proven experience as a Backend Engineer, with solid experience in Golang development.

• Experience with microservices architecture, containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, event engines like Kafka and RabbitMQ.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Strong problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, and security.

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams.

• Experience with other programming languages (e.g., Python, C#, Javascript / Node) is a plus.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan.

• Opportunities for professional development and growth.

• Generous vacation policy.

Salary Range:

$200,000 - $220,000