Backend Engineering Lead (Irving)

Backend Engineering Lead

Hybrid Dallas, TX

Contract-to-Hire

Our national retail client is seeking a Backend Engineering Lead to guide and elevate the backend team, supporting and enhancing their mobile platforms. This role is central to ensuring a seamless and high-performing mobile experience, bridging technology, merchandising, and operations to deliver best-in-class functionality for customers. Youll collaborate closely with mobile, product, and infrastructure teams to set technical direction, drive innovation, and establish strong engineering standards across a growing mobile ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of six backend engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and accountability.
• Contribute directly to backend development effortsbuilding, optimizing, and maintaining the APIs and services that power mobile experiences.
• Define and uphold engineering best practices, coding standards, and scalable architecture patterns.
• Drive the design and implementation of GraphQL APIs to improve flexibility, performance, and data delivery across mobile and backend systems.
• Collaborate with Mobile Leads and Product stakeholders to translate business goals into technical tasks, design efficient GraphQL schemas, and guide the team through implementation.
• Document architecture decisions, API contracts, and development workflows in Confluence, ensuring alignment and maintainability.
• Partner with infrastructure and vendor teams to streamline deployment and release processes, supporting a reliable CI / CD pipeline.
• Continuously improve backend performance by optimizing data flows, reducing network traffic, and enhancing the efficiency of integrations across multiple systems and databases.

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