**Description** **We're Hiring: Backend Team Lead** **Remote (Global)** | **Full-Time (40-60 hrs/week)** | **Work from Anywhere** **Company**: [Aladia - Online E-learning Platform] **Contract**: Long-term, Remote **About Us** **Aladia** is a rapidly growing e-learning platform based in Italy, on a mission to transform digital education globally. We're passionate about innovation, learner-centered design, and delivering exceptional online learning experiences that scale. We’re looking for a **Backend Team Lead** who’s ready to help us evolve our backend infrastructure into a world-class, microservices-powered system **and lead a team of skilled engineers to do so.** **What You’ll Do** **Leadership & Mentorship**: - Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers, ensuring technical excellence and best practices.
- Conduct code reviews, facilitate knowledge sharing, and foster professional growth within the team.
- Set clear technical goals, manage workload distribution, and provide regular feedback. **Backend Engineering**: - Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using NestJS (Node.js).
- Provide technical direction and make key architectural decisions for backend development. **API Development**: - Build robust, secure RESTful APIs connecting learners to our platform.
- Ensure API consistency, versioning, and performance optimization. **Database Management**: - Work primarily with MongoDB to structure and manage data effectively.
- Guide data modeling and performance tuning decisions. **Version Control**: - Collaborate through Git and branching workflows, ensuring high-quality merges and releases. **Architecture**: - Implement and enforce clean architectural patterns, especially Controller-Service-Repository (CSR).
- Lead refactoring and modularization efforts to improve system maintainability.



**Microservices**: - Design, develop, and scale a microservices-based backend infrastructure.
- Establish standards and strategies for inter-service communication and orchestration. **Containerization**: - Use Docker to manage environments and deployments.
- Oversee infrastructure environments for local development, staging, and production. **CI/CD & Testing**: - Maintain and enforce code quality with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
- Establish test coverage goals and promote a test-driven development culture. **API Documentation & Testing**: - Use Apidog to document and test APIs in real time.
- Ensure documentation accuracy and team-wide adoption. **Agile Workflow**: - Collaborate in sprint-based development using ClickUp.
- Participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and roadmap alignment. **Who We’re Looking For**
- ** Experienced backend engineers with leadership or senior-level experience.**: - Proficient in NestJS and solid backend engineering fundamentals.
- Strong mentors and communicators who can lead by example.
- Passionate lifelong learners who thrive in collaborative, multicultural, remote environments.
- Professionals ready for long-term commitment in a fast-paced startup. **Work Schedule**
- ** Time Zone**: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Italy time)
- ** Team**: International, remote-first
- ** Culture**: High-performance, high-learning,



highly collaborative **Perks & Benefits**
- Continuous learning opportunities
- Long-term contract and stability
- Exposure to multicultural and cutting-edge tech environments
- Opportunities to grow in a remote-first, agile company
- Lead a team building meaningful, scalable systems **Commitment Note** We appreciate individuals who go above and beyond. If you're someone who’s excited to contribute 60+ hours/week during peak times, including occasional weekends, we welcome that level of drive and commitment. Excellence takes time—and passion. **Application Process** **Step 1: Apply** Submit your interest along with your CV and GitHub or portfolio. Once shortlisted, we’ll notify you to proceed to the technical challenge. **Step 2: Technical Challenge** Create a new NestJS backend project with the following: - 5+ RESTful API endpoints
- Request validation via class-validator
- Proper error handling **Premio Points For**: - Microservices implementation
- MongoDB integration
- Caching mechanisms **Also Required**: - Video walkthrough (5-15 min) explaining your project, structure, and architecture (Vidyard/Loom preferred)
- Share your GitHub repo and video link
- **Deadline**: 48 hours after confirmation to begin challenge. **Step 3: Review** Our team will evaluate: - Code quality and organization
- Conceptual understanding
- Optional points for scalability, documentation, and communication **Ready to Join?** If you're passionate about backend development, love building for scale, and want to **lead a team** that's shaping the future of education—we want to hear from you. **Compensation**
- ** Hourly**: $12.00 - $26.00/hour
- ** Engagement**: 40+ hrs/week, Contract-to-Hire on Upwork **Questions on Application**

📌 Backend Team Lead - Fully Remote (Brescia)
🏢 ISTITUTO FORMATIVO ALADIA
📍 Brescia