The Lead Backend Engineer, Product (Fileforce) joins the engineering team to design and develop high-quality, production-ready code for a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud distributed filesystem environment. This role involves envisioning and building new components and frameworks to provide scale and efficiency within an evolving market technology. Key responsibilities include mentoring junior engineers, performing code reviews, and resolving complex technical issues to improve system scalability, robustness, and availability. The position requires mastery in systems design and programming languages including Java and Python, with strong SQL skills for relational and non-relational databases like Postgres and Trino. Candidates must have experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, and proficiency in event-driven architecture, queues, locks, and streaming technologies like Kafka, as well as containerization tools like Kubernetes and Docker.