About this role
The Role We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead ready to build something from the ground up, not maintain someone else's roadmap. You will help architect, build, deploy, and scale a next-generation backend and platform for AI-driven data centre infrastructure. This role is not a traditional software management position. We are looking for someone who is equally comfortable making high-level technical decisions and rolling up their sleeves to implement production systems across cloud infrastructure, DevOps, backend services, optimization workflows, and real-time orchestration. The ideal candidate has deep technical fluency across multiple engineering domains and thrives in fast-moving startup environments where ownership, adaptability, and execution matter. You will take ownership of evolving an existing prototype and architecture into a secure, scalable, production-grade platform while helping establish the technical foundation for future engineering growth.
Key Responsibilities
• Take technical ownership of the platform architecture and make critical engineering decisions across infrastructure, deployment, scalability, and system reliability. • Lead the transition of the platform from prototype to production-ready deployment. • Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure and hosting environments. • Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and DevOps workflows to support reliable deployment and operations. • Develop and maintain backend systems, APIs, orchestration services, and operational tooling. • Translate thermal, power, and closed-loop control domain requirements into backend and platform architecture decisions. • Support implementation and operationalization of optimization and machine-learning systems involving multi-objective decision-making. • Maintain architectural awareness of thermal management, liquid cooling infrastructure, power systems, and closed-loop control processes, without owning the hands-on OT/industrial-systems engineering directly. • Establish engineering best practices for security, uptime, observability, monitoring, and incident response. • Help define technical standards, development workflows, and long-term platform scalability strategies. • Operate effectively in a startup environment by wearing multiple hats and driving execution across both strategic and hands-on technical work. • Support future team growth through technical mentorship, hiring input, and engineering leadership. • Own realistic estimation of engineering work, timelines and effort, and proactively flag risks, delays, or scope changes as soon as they are visible, not after they have already become a problem.
Requirements
• 6+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with meaningful product development experience; prior formal leadership title is not required if you are ready to step into one. • Proven experience taking complex technical products or platforms from prototype/MVP stage to production deployment. • Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP. • Deep experience with DevOps tooling, CI/CD pipeline implementation, infrastructure automation, and production operations. • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. • Strong backend engineering and API development experience. • Experience designing and operating highly available, high-uptime production systems. • Strong understanding of security best practices, infrastructure hardening, and compliance-oriented engineering environments. • Startup or high-growth company experience with demonstrated ability to operate independently and manage ambiguity. • Demonstrated ability to lead technically while