Hybrid Backend Team Lead

at TradingView

• Job title: Backend Team Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Kafka, Kubernetes, Postgres, Python, RabbitMQ, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Tbilisi, Georgia

About the role

• Backend Team Lead managing TradingView's In-house Financials engineering team. Responsible for technical direction and people leadership in delivering high-quality financial data across our platform.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Architect and evolve backend systems that ingest, transform, and serve financial data from third-party providers
• Ensure data consistency, integrity, and traceability across ingestion and distribution pipelines
• Optimize 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
• Work closely with product managers, analysts, and other engineering teams to define requirements and integration strategies
• Champion best practices in software engineering, testing, and CI/CD
• Drive initiatives around observability, reliability, and performance tuning

Requirements

• 7+ years in backend development, with 2+ years in a team or tech lead role managing both people and projects
• Proficiency in Python or Golang, and deep experience with PostgreSQL (schema design, performance tuning, query optimization)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, data pipelines, and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs and integrating with external data providers
• Proven ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers while fostering a healthy team culture
• Familiarity with data modeling and master data management concepts
• Exposure to containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Knowledge of data validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance techniques

Benefits

• Flexible working hours and a hybrid work format
• Well-equipped offices for focused and collaborative work
• 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