Lead Backend Engineer

7 days ago

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan Metal Full time 1,200,000 - 2,400,000 per year
About Metal

Metal is an AI-powered operating system for founders raising venture rounds. Used by thousands of founders across the globe, our platform brings deep intelligence to core workflows involved in fundraising. In the long-term, our mission is to build the rails of the venture industry by bringing efficiency to venture rounds.

About the Role

We're hiring a Lead Backend Engineer to drive the core infrastructure and data layer of Metal. You'll own the backend stack end-to-end: designing APIs, scaling systems, defining architecture, managing reliability, and leading a small team of engineers.

This is a role for someone who thrives on solving tough technical problems, thinks in systems, and is excited to build at the intersection of product and infrastructure. As a Lead, everything is in your purview — performance, reliability, observability, data pipelines, job queues, architecture, and mentoring.

You'll help define what engineering excellence looks like, and work closely with the founders to scale a platform that thousands of startups will depend on.

What You'll Do

  • Own the backend architecture — from APIs to asynchronous workflows, from DB schema to queue design

  • Lead and mentor a small team of backend and data engineers

  • Make foundational decisions about tools, patterns, infrastructure, and scaling strategy

  • Collaborate tightly with product, design, and frontend teams to ship features that matter

  • Ensure reliability, performance, and observability across the stack

  • Drive cross-functional projects around data modeling, ingestion, and internal platform development

  • Contribute to backend coding and code reviews — we expect Leads to be excellent engineers first

What We're Looking ForNon-Negotiable Qualities

  • Exceptional Technical Ability: You've led the design and scaling of complex backend systems and bring fluency in modern tools, patterns, and tradeoffs.

  • Professionalism & Drive: You show up on time, own outcomes, communicate proactively, and bring a sense of urgency to your work.

  • Intellectual Curiosity & Learning Capacity: You take initiative to understand the "why," ask hard questions, and build strong product intuition over time.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role
    Deep expertise in and TypeScript (Python is a plus)

  • Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, SQS (or similar)

  • Experience with data-intensive products, batch or streaming pipelines, and asynchronous architecture

  • Excellent system design, debugging, and communication skills
    Track record of leading backend teams and setting architectural direction

Preferred

  • Experience with DBT and modern data stack tooling

  • Knowledge of distributed systems and event-driven architecture

  • Comfortable with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Sentry, Datadog)

  • Exposure to full-stack environments and collaboration with frontend teams

  • Startup experience or building in fast-moving environments

Our Engineering Culture

We believe speed comes from process excellence — not chaos. We operate without a dedicated QA team, so every engineer owns quality and delivery.

We value engineers who think across product and system boundaries and who can fluidly step into leadership without losing sight of detail.

Why Join Metal?

This is a rare opportunity to join a product-driven company at a pivotal inflection point. You'll work alongside the founders on complex, meaningful problems, helping shape the core product experience of the infrastructure layer for startup fundraising.

We move fast but never compromise on craftsmanship — our team obsesses over quality, velocity, and long-term impact. Together, we're defining what elite engineering looks like in Pakistan — and beyond.

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