Lead Backend Developer

Orca Security is a cloud security platform built for engineers who care about visibility, context, and speed. Founded in 2019 by former Check Point leaders, Orca has raised $630M+ and reached unicorn status in 2021.

‍Orca's platform scans the entire cloud environment — AWS, Azure, GCP, and more — and surface what actually matters by prioritizing findings on real-world context: exposure, privilege, and potential impact. Cloud teams choose Orca because it deploys fast, scales with real infrastructure, and stays out of the way.

The WASP team owns Orca's customer-facing web application and its backend, the public REST API, internal administration tooling, account and inventory management, the platform's authentication, authorization, licensing and feature-flag infrastructure, and the analytics and reporting data pipelines that turn product data into customer-facing insight.

Reqirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant experience

• 7+ years of production software engineering experience

• Strong Python development experience, including web frameworks for Python (DRF, FastAPI, Flask, etc.)

• Hands-on Go development experience for backend services

• Practical experience using AI coding agents in day-to-day engineering, and a point of view on where they add the most value

• Experienced in building and supporting analytic systems

• Knowledge of designing and implementing event-driven systems

• Deep understanding of SQL database capabilities within web applications (PostgreSQL)

• Experienced with micro-service architecture and cloud-native services, focused on AWS cloud infrastructure

• Solid understanding of software design principles, concurrency, synchronization, memory management, data structures, algorithms, etc.

• 1+ year as a tech lead or team lead, with proven ability to plan and own delivery, make and defend technical decisions, and grow other engineers

• Ability to prioritize and organize effectively, with good communication skills

• Solid analytical and troubleshooting abilities

• English level — B2
  

Responsibilities

• Lead the team's delivery: own the committed items, plan and groom the roadmap, run sprint planning, and lead backlog analysis

• Work closely with Product Managers and other R&D managers to align priorities, manage dependencies, and translate product goals into an executable plan

• Drive architecture and design decisions across the team, where data correctness, customer-facing API stability, multi-tenant isolation, and pipeline reliability are first-class concerns

• Stay hands-on: write clean, concise, well-tested code on critical paths — primarily in Python, with Go for selected backend services

• Use AI agents to accelerate development, investigation, code review, and lead the team in building effective, safe agent-assisted workflows

• Diagnose complex issues, evaluate options, and recommend and execute the best solution

• Own the domain end-to-end, including DevOps: CI/CD, cloud infrastructure on AWS, and monitoring/alerting

• Lead the team's on-call rotation and production incident response for the domain

• Run team ceremonies, manage delivery against the roadmap, and grow team members

• Manage the performance of the team