Backend Team Lead
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About the team
We’re looking for a Team Lead to take full ownership of TradingView's News Backend team. You’ll be responsible for the technical direction and the people leadership of a cross-functional team. You’ll guide architecture and implementation decisions, foster a high-performing team culture, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery of data services that scale with our global user base.
Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Delivery
- Own the team’s roadmap, delivery commitments, and execution quality.
- Set clear goals, manage priorities, and ensure alignment with company-wide objectives.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning for team members.
Technical Leadership
- Architect and evolve backend systems that ingest, transform, and serve news data from third-party providers.
- Ensure data consistency, integrity, and traceability across ingestion and distribution pipelines.
- Optimize Elasticsearch / PostgreSQL schemas and queries for performance and scalability.
- Oversee the design and maintenance of internal APIs that serve data to downstream services with low latency and high reliability.
Cross-functional Collaboration
- Work closely with product managers, analysts, and other engineering teams to define requirements and integration strategies.
- Align with data modelers and system architects to ensure cohesive data structures and system design.
Engineering Excellence
- Champion best practices in software engineering, testing, and CI/CD.
- Lead code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical deep dives.
- Drive initiatives around observability, reliability, and performance tuning.
What makes you the perfect fit
- Leadership Experience: 7+ years in backend development, with 2+ years in a team or tech lead role managing both people and projects.
- Technical Expertise: Proficiency in Golang, and deep experience with Elasticsearch / PostgreSQL (schema design, performance tuning, query optimization).
- Systems Thinking: Strong understanding of distributed systems, data pipelines, and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- API Design: Experience building and maintaining RESTful / gRPC APIs and integrating with external data providers.
- People Skills: Proven ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers while fostering a healthy team culture.
- Distributed Systems: Familiarity with distributed systems, message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and caching strategies.
- Software Engineering Principles: Solid understanding of software engineering principles, testing, and CI/CD practices.
Will be a plus
- Experience in finance or trading domain
- Familiarity with TradingView as a product
- Data Modeling: Familiarity with data modeling and master data management concepts.
- Containerization and Cloud: Exposure to containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc.).
- Data Quality: Knowledge of data validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance techniques.
- Frontend: Experience in frontend stack and technologies
What we offer you
- Flexible working hours and a hybrid work format
- Well-equipped offices for focused and collaborative work
- A global, distributed team of 500+ professionals
- Learning, mentorship, and long-term career growth
- Relocation support and private health insurance
- Performance-based bonuses
- TradingView Premium access
- Regular team events and company-wide meetups
Join the TradingView team and help us build a product used by millions of traders and investors worldwide. We look forward to hearing from you!
TradingView is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our success is driven by 600+ professionals from 40+ countries who speak nearly 20 languages.
