Lead Backend Engineer — Hybrid

Job overview

The Lead Backend Engineer — Hybrid role is hybrid in Washington, DC; relocation is supported. Compensation is not specified. The engineer works across backend services, real-time media infrastructure, data schemas, messaging, and access control, partnering with AI/ML, computer vision, frontend, DevOps, and security stakeholders. The role owns major backend architecture decisions and guides implementation of reliable, secure, scalable services. It leads engineering work from system design through code review, improves production performance and reliability, and mentors engineers while establishing sound technical standards.

What you'll do

• Lead backend service design and development
• own backend work for real-time communication capabilities
• architect cloud-based microservices
• design APIs, event flows, and service integrations
• develop data schemas and persistence strategies
• build authentication, authorization, and access-control systems
• build event-driven systems
• collaborate with technical stakeholders
• review code, mentor engineers, and improve production performance and reliability.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

lead backend engineer

hybrid

washington dc

expert in recruitment solutions

go

microservices

distributed systems

webrtc

kafka

cloud architecture

ai/ml

mentoring

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Go is the primary implementation language, but the posting says the strict Go requirement may be relaxed; requires seven years of backend or systems engineering experience.

About the employer

Expert In Recruitment Solutions is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.