Backend Tech Lead — Product Infrastructure
Corsearch
Backend Tech Lead — Product Infrastructure
Corsearch is seeking a Backend Tech Lead to guide and scale its Product Infrastructure team in Amsterdam. The role involves leading 3–5 engineers, driving a migration to real-time stream processing, and optimizing high-throughput data pipelines and databases. Requires strong Python, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and AWS experience with proven technical leadership.
Backend Tech Lead — Product Infrastructure
Corsearch is seeking a Backend Tech Lead to guide and scale its Product Infrastructure team in Amsterdam. The role involves leading 3–5 engineers, driving a migration to real-time stream processing, and optimizing high-throughput data pipelines and databases. Requires strong Python, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and AWS experience with proven technical leadership.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor, and support a core team of 3–5 engineers
- Drive project planning, sprint execution, and technical delivery
- Lead and accelerate migration from legacy daily batch tasks to a high-throughput, real-time stream processing ingestion pipeline
- Oversee infrastructure scaling, including growing adoption of Kubernetes on AWS
- Take technical ownership of PostgreSQL performance, index tuning, and database consistency under heavy load
- Partner with Product Engineering to evolve real-time auto-moderation pipeline and integrate AI/ML models into core data workflows
- Leverage observability stack (ClickHouse and Grafana) to automate incident investigation, drive performance improvements, and rapidly resolve critical bugs
- Work closely with cross-functional squads, product managers, and engineering leaders to translate business objectives into clear technical roadmaps and execution plans