Technical Lead - Platform at carbonhealth

What You’ll Do

Lead technical work on building and scaling Carbon Health’s core platform and foundational services.
Drive architectural and implementation decisions for highly available, scalable, and reliable backend systems.
Guide the team through system design, development, and delivery in a modern microservices environment.
Promote best practices in software engineering, including code quality, observability, testing, and automation.
Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and fast, reliable delivery.
Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across frontend and backend domains.

Experience Requirements

5+ years of experience designing and building backend or distributed systems.
2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role.
Strong experience with microservice architectures and cloud-based systems.
Proficiency in at least one strongly typed language (preferably Kotlin, Scala, Java).
Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and data stores such as Redis, ElasticSearch.
Hands-on experience with AWS or similar cloud infrastructure.
Experience on GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines
Ability to work as an independent technical leader to design and develop new features with a distributed team.
Familiarity with modern DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) is a plus.

Benefits:

Technical Lead - Platform