Backend Engineering Lead: TypeScript/Node.js, Scale & Impact in Paris

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience

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• 2+ years of experience leading an engineering team (formal or informal)

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• Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript /Node.js

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• Good knowledge of industry best practices (SOLID, KISS, YAGNI, DDD, TDD...)

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• Proven ability to own and deliver large technical projects with cross-team dependencies

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• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

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• Track record of growing engineers and building high-performing teams

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• Ability to balance speed-of-delivery with long-term technical health

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• (Desirable) Advanced PostgreSQL — schema design at scale, performance tuning, migrations

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• (Desirable) Experience with VueJS or frontend architecture decisions

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• (Desirable) Experience with AWS infrastructure (EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, SQS/SNS, CloudFront, ALB)

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• (Desirable) Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, Helm) at scale

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• (Desirable) Observability and SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, on-call management

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• (Desirable) Experience operating in a hyper-growth or gaming/consumer product company

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• (Desirable) Platform engineering or developer experience background

What the job involves

• We’re looking for an Engineering Lead (TypeScript/Node.js) to join our Engineering & Data team. As an Engineering Lead, you'll combine strong individual technical contributions with team leadership

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• You'll be responsible for the technical direction of your squad, the growth of your engineers, and the delivery of high-impact projects. This is a hybrid IC/manager role — you'll still write code, but your leverage is through the team

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• Lead the technical direction and architecture for your squad's domain

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• Drive design reviews, set coding standards, and ensure engineering excellence

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• Own the full delivery of complex, cross-team technical initiatives

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• Build, scale and operate Node.js/TypeScript backend services on AWS/EKS

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• Define the infrastructure and reliability strategy for your team's systems

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• Partner with Product and Data to translate business goals into technical roadmaps

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• Grow engineers through 1:1s, code reviews, mentorship and technical coaching

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• Identify systemic risks and drive improvements before they become incidents

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• Be an ambassador for engineering culture: psychological safety, pragmatism, and craft

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• Our Stack:

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• TypeScript ; Node.js ; AWS ; Terraform ; CDK ; Helm