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We're rebuilding a fully owned, offline-first platform for inspection and compliance workflows — and we need a Lead Backend Engineer to drive the backend architecture.This is a high-impact, hands-on role. You'll lead the design and development of schema-driven inspections, offline sync systems, custom reporting engines, and scalable APIs — not just glue code.What You'll Do:Own and evolve core backend services.Design dynamic, schema-driven APIs (JSON metadata).Build an offline-first sync engine (queued writes, retry logic, conflict resolution).Replace Survey123 reports with a new HTML-to-PDF engine (WeasyPrint, wkhtmltopdf).Generate static maps for field reports.Collaborate closely with mobile engineers (iOS, Android) and DevOps teams.Mentor mid-level engineers and remote collaborators.What You Bring:7+ years backend engineering experience.Python expert with real-world async experience (FastAPI preferred).Deep AWS knowledge: EC2/Fargate, S3, IAM, ALB, CloudWatch.PostgreSQL wizardry (JSONB, PostGIS, indexing, migrations).JWT/OIDC auth (Cognito or FastAPI JWT stacks).Event-driven architecture skills (Redis, background workers, retry queues).Strong engineering discipline: typed interfaces, testing, observability.