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Description We are looking for Backend & Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead (Node.js / AWS). You'll lead the team that owns Questar's AWS cloud infrastructure and the backend microservices running on it. Hands-on leadership: roughly 60% people management, 40% staying close to architecture. You're accountable for how our microservices are designed, deployed, scaled and kept alive in production. What You'll Do: Lead, mentor and grow a team of backend and infrastructure engineers: 1:1s, goals, performance reviews, career development Own the architecture of the AWS environment and the microservices platform on it, from design through rollout Break large initiatives into workstreams, delegate ownership, hold the team to delivery commitments without micromanaging Run agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retros, grooming) and align roadmap and priorities with product and other engineering leads Set and enforce engineering standards: code review, testing, observability, incident response, on-call rotation Drive cost, performance and reliability improvements across the platform Take part in hiring: interviewing, calibration, onboarding Requirements Must-Have: 8+ years of industry experience 5+ years as a people manager / team lead, leading engineering teams through full delivery cycles 3+ years of production backend development in TypeScript / Node.js (APIs, services, background processing, data flows). Frontend or frontend-leaning full-stack does not count Proven experience designing and leading AWS solutions at scale for distributed microservices — able to walk through a system you architected end to end and defend the trade-offs Deep hands-on knowledge of core AWS: ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, API Gateway, VPC networking, IAM Containers and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes or ECS Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipeline ownership Production ownership: monitoring, alerting, on-call, post-incident reviews Strong grounding in agile, and the judgment to know when to bend it Excellent written and spoken English Nice-to-Have: Kafka / event-driven architecture at scale Multi-region or multi-account AWS setups Database performance tuning at scale (Postgres, DynamoDB) Security and compliance exposure (SOC 2, ISO 27001) Originally posted on Himalayas