Commit is a global technology services company delivering custom software, IoT platforms, and end-to-end solutions for organizations ranging from startups to large enterprises. Its multidisciplinary team of more than 700 experts works across cloud, generative AI, software engineering, IoT, big data, cybersecurity, and data center migration. With operations spanning Israel, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe, Commit uses its proprietary Flexible R&D methodology to help clients develop high-quality technology products while improving cost efficiency and time to market.
Senior Backend and Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead, Node.js and AWS
Lead Questar’s backend and cloud infrastructure teams, overseeing AWS infrastructure and Node.js microservices. Guide engineers while shaping scalable architecture, reliability, and delivery.
Description
- Lead and develop backend and infrastructure engineers through coaching, goal setting, reviews, and career support.
- Own AWS environment and microservices architecture from design to rollout.
- Break major initiatives into workstreams, assign ownership, and keep delivery on track.
- Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog grooming, and other agile ceremonies.
- Coordinate roadmap and priorities with product and engineering leads.
- Establish standards for code review, testing, observability, incident response, and on-call practices.
- Improve platform cost efficiency, performance, and reliability.
- Support hiring with interviews, candidate calibration, and onboarding.
- Lead the team responsible for Questar’s AWS infrastructure and backend microservices.
- Remain hands-on with architecture, balancing approximately 60% people leadership and 40% architecture.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of industry experience.
- At least 5 years managing people or leading engineering teams through full delivery cycles.
- At least 3 years of production backend development with TypeScript or Node.js, including APIs, services, background processing, and data flows; frontend or frontend-focused full-stack experience does not qualify.
- Demonstrated ability to design and lead large-scale AWS solutions for distributed microservices, explain end-to-end architecture, and justify trade-offs.
- In-depth practical knowledge of ECS or EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, API Gateway, VPC networking, and IAM.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or ECS.
- Experience managing infrastructure as code with Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation.
- Experience owning CI/CD pipelines.
- Production ownership covering monitoring, alerting, on-call duties, and post-incident reviews.
- Strong understanding of agile practices and sound judgment about when to adapt them.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Preferred: Experience with Kafka or large-scale event-driven architecture.
- Preferred: Experience with multi-region or multi-account AWS environments.
- Preferred: Experience tuning Postgres or DynamoDB performance at scale.
- Preferred: Exposure to security and compliance, including SOC 2 or ISO 27001.