Tech Lead - Backend

About the Role

Electrum is building the digital backbone for Indonesia’s 2W electric mobility ecosystem. As a Tech Lead focused on backend systems, you will be responsible for leading technical design, architectural decisions, and engineering excellence across mission-critical services.

You will collaborate closely with product, mobile, IoT, and infrastructure teams to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability as the business rapidly expands.

What You Will Do

• Lead backend architecture design and ensure systems meet scale, performance, and security standards.
• Guide backend engineers through technical direction, code quality, reviews, and best practices.
• Own service development lifecycle from planning, implementation, testing, deployment, and incident resolution.
• Collaborate with product and business teams to translate requirements into scalable backend solutions.
• Design and optimize microservices, APIs, and integrations across internal and external systems.
• Identify and resolve system bottlenecks; drive observability, monitoring, and incident response improvements.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, tooling, automation (CI/CD), and documentation.
• Mentor and grow backend team capability, fostering knowledge sharing and engineering excellence.
• Make build-versus-buy recommendations and contribute to technology roadmap decisions.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical fields.
• 5–8 years of experience in backend engineering, including experience leading technical initiatives or teams.
• Proficiency in backend languages such as Go, Node.js, Java, or similar.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and high-availability architectures.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS/Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Solid knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, caching, and messaging systems.
• Proven track record of system design, decision-making, and delivering production-grade solutions.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical direction.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience building IoT or hardware-integrated systems.
• Background in fintech, mobility, logistics, EV, or other multi-system operational platforms.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and streaming platforms (Kafka, Pub/Sub).
• Exposure to DevOps tools and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm).