Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate backend features on our Node.js + TypeScript platform using Express + Apollo GraphQL in a modular-monolith architecture.
• Model and evolve a large, multi-tenant data layer with Prisma 7 on PostgreSQL (including read replicas), with attention to performance, indexing, and data integrity.
• Build and harden third-party integrations: payments (Stripe, NMI), communications (SendGrid, Twilio), CRM (HubSpot), scheduling (Calendly), and healthcare systems (Dosespot, pharmacy/consult-provider APIs).
• Design event-driven and asynchronous workflows using Google Cloud Pub/Sub, scheduled jobs (App Engine Cron), and Cloud Functions for payment retries, follow-ups, escalations, and batch processing.
• Implement secure authentication and RBAC (Firebase Admin, JWT, OTP flows, granular permissions) in a multi-tenant, compliance-sensitive context.
• Work with GCP services App Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Document AI, Secret Manager and contribute to CI/CD via GitHub Actions and Prisma migration pipelines.
• Make full-stack changes when needed, wiring up the Vue 3 / Apollo frontend to ship a feature completely.
• Write robust tests with Vitest + Supertest and Firebase emulators; ensure reliability, observability (Winston/Cloud Logging), and safe rollouts.
• Mentor engineers, lead design discussions, and own systems end-to-end in production.

Requirements:

• 4-5 years of professional backend or full-stack engineering experience, with a track record on medium-to-large-scale production systems.
• Strong Node.js + TypeScript expertise and solid API design skills (GraphQL strongly preferred; strong REST background welcome).
• Deep relational database experience: schema design, query optimisation, migrations ideally with Prisma/PostgreSQL or comparable ORMs.
• Experience building and maintaining complex third-party integrations and webhook-driven systems, including payments.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure transferable), async messaging/queues, caching (Redis), and CI/CD.
• Solid grasp of authentication, authorisation (RBAC), and security best practices.
• Enough frontend competence to contribute to a Vue/React + GraphQL client when a feature demands it.
• Demonstrated ability to own systems independently, take responsibility for reliability and on-call quality, and reason about scale and trade-offs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication essential for our remote, async culture.
• Leadership qualities: you mentor others, drive technical design, and raise engineering standards.
• Experience with Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Document AI, or other GCP-native services.
• Background in healthcare, fintech, or regulated/compliance-sensitive domains (HIPAA awareness a plus).