Lead Backend Engineer (Python/Django)

Lead Backend Engineer (Python/Django) – Search Atlas

Overview

Search Atlas is a rapidly growing SEO software company. As a Lead Backend Engineer you will guide the technical direction of our core product team, driving architecture decisions and mentoring the development team.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend development, ensuring alignment with engineering standards.
• Translate product objectives into technical plans and milestones.
• Build and maintain scalable Django REST applications and well‑documented APIs.
• Oversee fault‑tolerant background task processing with Celery.
• Architect improvements to scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and promote a collaborative, high‑performing culture.
• Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, and Frontend teams to deliver end‑to‑end features.
• Implement TDD, linting, and test coverage enforcement.
• Monit...