Job Description
Backend Engineer Team Leader
Lead the Backbone of Scalable, High-Impact Systems,
Are you ready to shape the future of backend engineering at scale? We’re looking for a Backend Team Leader who thrives on complexity, innovation, and ownership. This isn’t just another engineering role—it’s an opportunity to drive real business impact.
You’ll lead a team that powers hundreds of critical integrations, designing and maintaining the robust infrastructure behind them. From day one, you’ll operate with a WIN (“Whatever It Needs”) mindset and take full end-to-end (E2E) ownership of your domain and customers’ commitments with direct communication. We’re building systems that must be reliable, high-performance, and built for scale—and your technical leadership will set the direction.
You’ll break down tough technical challenges, explore smart solutions, and guide your team toward delivering them at production scale.
But it doesn’t stop at code. As a people leader, you’ll push for engineering excellence, while fostering a strong, mission-driven culture. You’ll balance deep technical vision with effective customer communication, ensuring our product not only works—it wins deals and sustains long-term growth.
If you’re passionate about building strong teams, solving real-world problems, and owning outcomes— this is your seat at the table.
The team is part of Asset Group, which manages over 1,200 integrations at Axonius, enabling us to maintain a strong competitive advantage in the market. Our team develops and maintains highly scalable infrastructures, ensuring seamless data normalization and processing, which is crucial for building efficient systems and delivering valuable insights.
Apply if you have:
- Advanced English Language Skills
- At least 5 years as a Backend Engineer (1+ years in Python)
- At least 3 years of experience as a team leader, combining both people management and technical leadership responsibilities.
- High Problem-solving skills
- Experience with Linux (basics)
- Enjoy working closely with customers
- Experience of using AI in the workplace
It will be considered a plus:
- API knowledge (SQL, REST, SOAP)
- Experience with technology such as Celery, Redis, Docker, MongoDB, and Cloud environments
- Experience with other operating systems
- Experience working with global teams and customers worldwide.
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About Axonius:
Axonius transforms cyber asset intelligence into actionability. With the Axonius Asset Cloud, customers preemptively tackle high-risk and hard-to-spot threat exposures, misconfigurations, and overspending. The integrated platform brings together data from every system in an organization’s IT infrastructure to optimize mission-critical risk, performance, and cost measures via actionable intelligence.
Covering cyber assets, software, SaaS applications, identities, vulnerabilities, infrastructure, and more, Axonius is the one place to go for Security, IT, and GRC teams to continuously drive actionability across the organization. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius supports millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world.
Axonius makes it a priority to invest in our people with competitive compensation and benefits, growth opportunities, community-building, and so much more. Learn more about benefits at Axonius.
At Axonius we support a diverse and inclusive workplace and believe in equal employment opportunity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard torace, color, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.
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