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Technical Lead, Backend EngineeringWafr Technologies LTD. • Vancouver, BC, CA
Technical Lead, Backend Engineering

Technical Lead, Backend Engineering

Wafr Technologies LTD. • Vancouver, BC, CA
4 days ago
Salary
CA$120,000.00 yearly
Job type
  • Full-time
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Job description

The Role

We're hiring a hands-on Technical Lead to take our AI-driven data centre infrastructure platform from prototype to production. This isn't a maintenance role, you'll architect, build, deploy, and scale the backend, own critical infrastructure decisions, and stay hands-on in implementation. Startup pace, high ownership, wearing multiple hats.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own platform architecture and lead the transition from prototype to production-grade deployment
  • Design and run cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps automation for reliable operations
  • Build and maintain backend systems, APIs, orchestration services, and operational tooling
  • Translate thermal, power, and closed-loop control requirements into platform architecture (no direct OT/industrial-systems engineering required)
  • Support optimization and ML systems involving multi-objective decision-making
  • Set the bar for security, uptime, observability, and incident response
  • Give realistic estimates and flag risks or scope changes early, not after they've become a problem
  • As we grow: mentor, weigh in on hiring, and help set technical standards

Requirements

  • 6+ years in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with real product experience (no formal "lead" title required if you're ready to act like one)
  • Track record taking a product from MVP to production
  • Strong hands-on cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP), plus CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and Docker/Kubernetes
  • Solid backend/API development and experience running high-uptime production systems
  • Security and infrastructure-hardening fluency
  • Startup experience — comfortable operating independently with ambiguity
  • Realistic scoping/estimation, and a habit of surfacing risk early
  • Depth in at least one of: optimization/ML infrastructure, multi-objective decision systems, or telemetry/monitoring at scale

Nice to Have

  • Background in AI infrastructure, data centers, energy systems, or industrial automation
  • Real-time orchestration, distributed systems, or edge computing
  • MILP solvers or operational AI/optimization frameworks
  • Liquid cooling, thermal optimization, or power-aware infrastructure
  • Battery management, power electronics, or energy dispatch systems
  • Founding engineer / early-stage technical leadership experience
  • SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance framework familiarity

Benefits

  • Milestone-based performance bonus
  • Stock options
  • Extended health and dental
  • Real room to grow as the engineering org scale
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