

About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced and driven Lead Backend Engineer to oversee and elevate our backend architecture. This role will focus deeply on backend systems, collaborating closely with the founder and core team to turn strategic goals into reality through backend excellence. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical expertise with leadership capabilities, driving backend development while ensuring system security, scalability, and performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Backend Development Leadership
- Ownership of Backend Systems: Lead the backend development process, aligning it with the company's broader goals. Gain a full understanding of the existing backend infrastructure, especially in the initial phase.
- Roadmap Development: Within the first three months, build a detailed roadmap that addresses backend "must-do" tasks (e.g., major bugs, security vulnerabilities, data leakage prevention) alongside longer-term improvements. Continuously update the roadmap based on strategic directions from board meetings.
2. Strategic Planning and Execution
- Backend Strategy Implementation: Translate high-level strategies into backend tasks, ensuring clarity on how each piece fits into the company's larger goals.
- Sprint and Task Management: Lead the backend sprint planning process, break down tasks into manageable components, and ensure accurate estimations for efficient execution.
3. Team Leadership and Development
- Mentoring and Growth: Lead backend developers, nurturing their growth while ensuring a culture of responsibility and continuous improvement.
- Process Optimization: Regularly assess backend processes, identifying areas to streamline development and ensure adherence to best practices.
4. Security and Quality Assurance
- Security Oversight: Ensure the backend systems are fortified against potential threats, setting the highest standards for security in every aspect of development.
- Quality Assurance: Maintain top-tier backend development standards, ensuring the system remains resilient, scalable, and efficient under load.
5. Innovation and Continuous Learning
- Real-time Strategy Input: Offer insights during strategic discussions on backend challenges, providing quick, effective solutions when needed.
- Automation and Efficiency: Implement backend automation practices, from CI/CD pipelines to other efficiency-boosting tools that improve the backend workflow.
6. Research and Communication
- Technology Exploration: Stay ahead of backend trends and technologies, providing research and recommendations to stakeholders. Break down complex backend issues into understandable, actionable points.
7. Workplace Expectations
- Ownership Mentality: Embody a strong sense of ownership over the backend systems, with a proactive attitude that eliminates the need for close follow-up.
- On-site Work: Work from the office is required to foster close collaboration with the team.
Tech Stack & Skills
Must-Have:
- Programming Languages: Node.js & JavaScript (TypeScript or normal)
- Databases: Firestore, MongoDB, NoSQL
- Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS
- Microservices: Google Cloud Functions
- Containerization: Docker (creation, hosting, maintenance, etc.)
- Deployment & Orchestration: Google Cloud Run
- Messaging & Task Management: Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Tasks
- Security: GCP/AWS Security (IAMs)
Good-to-Have:
- Programming Languages: Python
Qualifications:
- Proven experience as a Lead Backend Engineer or similar role, focusing on backend systems.
- Expertise in the backend technologies specified.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and backend security best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to think critically about backend challenges.
- Strong leadership qualities with the ability to mentor and manage backend developers.
- A passion for continuous learning and applying new backend technologies.
- A high degree of ownership over backend systems, with the ability to work independently.

About Zobaze
About
At Zobaze, we're not just developing apps; we're crafting the future of SMEs worldwide. Our quest to become the premier business utility app drives us to deliver revolutionary solutions like Zobaze POS and Restokeep. These tools don't just manage business—they propel it, enabling owners to monitor everything from sales to staff performance with unparalleled ease and efficiency.
With a remarkable footprint spanning 192 countries and over 2 million downloads, our apps have already generated 100 million receipts, evidencing our substantial global impact.
As a 100% bootstrapped company, our journey from inception to cash-positive operations exemplifies our dedication and resilience. We stand as a beacon of innovation and sustainability in the SME sector.
🤑 Funding
We are proud to be cash flow positive and have not yet tapped into VC funding, setting us apart from 99% of startups. This financial stability allows us to invest in our team's growth through a robust ESOP pool.
Securing funding will further accelerate our growth. Joining our team now offers a unique opportunity to create significant value, especially before our fundraising efforts take off.
⚠️ Before you apply
If you're looking for a standard 9-5 job, we are not a match. However, if you seek an exceptional learning curve, exposure to multiple verticals, and the opportunity to help establish processes that will propel our growth, we encourage you to apply. Our journey is dynamic, requiring flexibility and adaptability to changing needs.
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At Zobaze, we're on a mission to revolutionize utility solutions for small and medium businesses globally. Zobaze POS (Point of Sale) is an all-in-one app that takes care of billing, inventory management, customer management, staff management and more for SMEs.
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Requirements:
- Proficient in fundamental Software Design Principles, Data Structures, Algorithms, Problem Solving and Complexity Analysis.
- Proficient in programming languages like Python/Java/Javascript/Golang or similar.
- Strong understanding of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Hands-on Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases such as Postgres, Mysql, MongoDB.
- Hands-on experience with GIT, CI/CD, REST APIs and Cloud ( AWS/ GCP/ Azure) will be preferred.
- Understanding of Microservice Architecture and System Design Principles is a plus.
- Self-driven, detail-oriented and Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and ability to deliver great work.
- Demonstrated expertise in developing, releasing and maintaining large scale software applications.


Desired Experience
3+ years
Job Description
What You’ll Do
- Design financial systems for scale. Measure, plan, iterate.
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Setup and own the engineering architectures built around event sourcing, application sharding, database sharding, service communication mesh, etc.
- The tech: Go, Google Cloud Spanner, Kafka, Redis
What you bring to the table
- 3+ years of experience. Relevant experience is preferred.
- Knowledge of 2 common programming languages - Python & Go / Java & Node / Rust
- Comfortable in linux command line, AWS or GCP
- Strong unit test and debugging skills
- Great communication skills
Bonus if you have…
- Love building great products and engineering systems from scratch
- Are a Self-starter, Hustler and Curious to Learn
- Have an understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Thrive in an early-stage startup environment with less stability and more ambiguity
- Have an interest in financial products and/or cryptocurrency
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Role
You will be responsible for architecting and setting the standards for building our core backend/microservices. Also, you will be responsible for shaping up the entire system for scale and collaborating intensively with the frontend and design teams to create the best consumer experiences.
Responsibilities
● Develop microservices that will be used by the frontend through API endpoints.
● Translate business requirements into high quality code.
● Ensure that the code is deployed in a secure and scalable fashion.
● Focus on code maintainability and performance of application.
● Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems.
● Enhance Analytics and overall backend architecture for better performance.
Requirements
● At least 1 years of experience on NodeJS
● Practical experience in building APIs
● Experience with RabbitMQ or similar queuing system
● Experience with Redis/ElasticSearch is a plus
● Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins
● Practical experience with Git
● A knack for benchmarking and optimization
● Experience with AWS services is a plus
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