Backend Team Lead at Nanit

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nanit is moving families beyond overwhelm by transforming how parents understand their baby's early years. We combine advanced AI, real-world data from billions of sleep hours, and clinical expertise to deliver the clarity and confidence every parent deserves. Trusted by over one million families and backed by $125M in funding, we're building an entirely new category: predictive parenting intelligence.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here, your work directly impacts millions of families. Our team of scientists, engineers, and parents is small but mighty - we share a mission to make early childhood easier, healthier, and more connected. If you want to work on technology that genuinely matters, join us.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As a <strong>Backend Team Leader</strong> at Nanit, you will lead a team of backend and MLOps engineers that owns the systems behind our AI-driven product features. Your team works closest to our AI group - the Algorithms and Data teams - and owns the engineering side of turning models into reliable production capabilities.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Concretely, that means owning real backend architecture - the services and APIs that carry AI-driven capabilities into the product, the data collection pipelines that feed model training, the storage and query layers that hold model outputs and the insights we derive from them, and the validation pipelines that let us trust production flows. You will make the core design decisions on service boundaries, data models, event flows, and scale and cost tradeoffs, in a domain where both the data volume and the correctness bar are high. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You do not need to arrive as an ML expert. You do need to be the kind of engineer who walks into an unfamiliar domain, learns it properly, and starts making good decisions in it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you'll be doing -&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Lead and grow the team</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Manage backend and MLOps engineers, some embedded in product pods; coach on delivery, decision-making, and career growth</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Set clear expectations for ownership and quality; track progress against team goals, surfacing risks early</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Own the backend behind our AI features</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build and scale data pipelines with the AI group, and design how model insights are stored, queried, and exposed to the product</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build validation pipelines and partner with the Algo team to take models from experiment to production</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Drive architecture direction and alignment</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Align backend decisions with the wider group, guide design discussions, and keep specs and plans on time</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate with the platform team on infrastructure, deployment, and reliability standards</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Improve reliability and operational readiness</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Raise the bar on stability, observability, and alert quality</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Turn recurring issues into focused engineering work; lead debriefs and drive action items to completion</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Who you are -&nbsp;</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">8+ years in backend engineering, with proven people leadership as a manager or team lead, delivering in fast-paced environments without micromanaging</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong production experience with web services/APIs on AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3, Kubernetes, and Kafka (including failure handling)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with data pipelines (batch/streaming) and monitoring/observability tools - dashboards, logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, and on-call</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">An advantage: familiarity with the ML model lifecycle, Python or exposure to Python-based research teams, big data infrastructure, Computer Vision/Deep Learning, or hands-on use of AI coding tools</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ability to inspire, mentor, and grow engineers, with strong self-learning skills in unfamiliar domains</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Clear communicator across technical and non-technical partners, balancing company priorities with sustainable delivery and team satisfaction</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Why Nanit?</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nanit products can actually change lives. We’re an integral part of the lives of new parents, making an exciting but stressful time a little more manageable.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are international and believe our diversity makes our culture, products, and brand even better.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We invest in our people. We consider each employee a long-term investment and we see value in continuously helping them to advance in their lives and careers</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Nanit is a fun, collaborative group of hard workers! We believe in an appropriate work-life balance and offer a flexible, open environment.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are at the forefront of innovation, creating products and services that have never been seen before.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class.</em></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>#IL-Hybrid</em></span></p>