Airport Systems - Tech Lead - Backend

The Backend Lead oversees scalable backend platforms, APIs, microservices, databases, and cloud-native solutions. Ensures reliability, performance, and security while enabling AI-driven engineering efficiency.

Strategic Activities

• Lead the architectural design of large‑scale, distributed backend systems using microservices, event‑driven patterns, and cloud‑native principles to support high availability and elasticity.
• Define backend architecture strategies addressing database design, API evolution, integration patterns, caching layers, message streaming pipelines, and long‑term technology direction.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, and Frontend teams to ensure backend services align with business workflows, performance expectations, and cross‑platform integration constraints.
• Establish standards for backend code quality, domain modeling, error handling, API versioning, logging frameworks, and observability best practices.
• Oversee development of secure, well‑documented, and scalable APIs—including REST, GraphQL, and event‑based interfaces—ensuring consistency and ease of integration for internal and external consumers.
• Lead DevOps strategy for backend systems, including containerization, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure‑as‑code templates, service mesh implementation, and distributed tracing.
• Drive the modernization of backend infrastructure, recommending and implementing new tools, databases, runtime environments, architectural styles, and automation solutions.
• Introduce and scale AI‑driven backend engineering practices such as Copilot‑assisted coding, automated test generation, log anomaly detection, and agent‑driven monitoring workflows.
• Optimize system performance through profiling, load testing, query tuning, resource scaling, and bottleneck elimination across compute, database, and network layers.
• Provide architectural oversight for data strategy—covering schema evolution, data flows, transactional integrity, indexing, backup strategy, and compliance requirements.
• Identify and proactively mitigate backend risks including scalability constraints, integration failures, security vulnerabilities, and architectural bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with Cloud, Security, QA, and Infra teams to ensure backend systems meet enterprise standards for compliance, resilience, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
• Continuously evaluate emerging backend frameworks, infrastructure technologies, and architectural innovations (e.g., serverless, edge computing, CQRS) and integrate them where they drive business value.

Team Management

• Help the developer team members to understand the technical aspects of the project in alignment with teams Lead and other stakeholders.
• Stay informed about industry trends and advancements, integrating relevant innovations into the company's technical strategy.
• Monitor and improve team performance metrics such as bug count, severity distribution, and task ownership.
• Ensure proactive communication of availability and task status.

Any other additional responsibility could be assigned to the role holder from time to time as a standalone project or regular work. The same would be suitably represented in the Primary responsibilities and agreed between the incumbent, reporting officer and HR.

Proficiency in project management software and tools.

Communication and Leadership Skills.

Knowledge of IT best practices and methodologies.

Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills.

Project and Time Management Skills.

Skill in coaching and mentoring the Scrum team on Agile principles, Scrum framework.

Adaptability and Continuous Learning Skills.

Proficient in Node.js with TypeScript, with hands-on experience in MongoDB and PostgreSQL. Familiarity with Python is a plus.

Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud services.

Demonstrated expertise in GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted code generation.

Experience with Agentic AI systems and Large Language Models (LLMs).

Minimum Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as computer science, information technology, or project management.

Minimum Requirement

Desired

Experience

• 8+ years of total IT experience
• Proven experience in managing IT projects.
• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of IT systems and software development.

• Project management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) is a plus.