Engineering Lead (Full-stack / Backend)

Inita is building an AI-first business co-pilot to enable small businesses to effortlessly build, manage, and scale their online presence.

We’re looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to take ownership of backend architecture and ensure a reliable, scalable system.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain backend services (Python) for new and currently existing features of Inita.
• Translate software requirements into stable, quality, high performance code; write tests, perform code reviews.
• Collaborate closely with other team members and teams.
• Manage a group of junior/middle/senior software engineers: planning, work decomposition, progress tracking, quality control, mentoring, driving/adjusting processes in the team, making decisions, tech leadership.
• Develop and maintain scalable and resilient software solutions.
• Perform code reviews and implement security enhancements to align with industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to the product.
• Analyze, optimize, and ensure the performance and reliability of solutions.
• Guide and mentor team members in adopting secure software development practices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend development experience in commercial projects.
• 6+ years of Python/Go development experience.
• 4+ years of small/medium size team management experience.
• Hands-on HTTP/Authentication/WebServices/REST API knowledge.
• Work experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL/MySQL/MS SQL).
• TCP/IP stack knowledge & network related programming experience.
• Multi-threaded programming experience.
• Linux advanced user.
• Hands-on Docker+Kubernetes experience.
• Work experience with Redis, RabbitMQ (or similar solutions).
• Understanding of distributed systems problems and solutions.
• Gitlab/Git advanced user.
• Good written and spoken English to communicate efficiently with other teams and team members.
• Work experience with Virtuozzo is desired.
• Experience with Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence).

What we offer

• Work on an exciting AI product and make key decisions.
• Distributed team passionate about what they do.
• Salary in a stable currency.
• Health insurance, no matter where you are located.
• All the necessary equipment to work efficiently.
• Flexible schedule, with 4–5 hours of overlap in CET (Central European Time) for real-time collaboration.
• Remote-first approach with periodic offsite meetings.
• Fully remote — work from wherever you’re most productive and inspired. However, at this time, we require candidates to be based outside of Russia and Belarus.