Backend Team Lead

Havoc AI Inc

Job Overview

Location

Nice, USA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead the development of scalable, high-performance backend systems that power autonomous surface vessels for defense and commercial maritime missions, directly contributing to mission-critical operations that prevent conflict and save lives through collaborative autonomy technology.
• Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers by setting engineering standards, conducting code reviews, guiding architectural decisions, owning the backend roadmap in partnership with product and engineering leadership, and fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly concurrent backend services in Go, architecting distributed systems that support high throughput, reliability, and real-time operations while defining service boundaries, APIs, and data models across systems.
• Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and resilience by identifying and resolving bottlenecks in distributed systems and concurrency-heavy workloads, ensuring systems meet high standards for uptime and operational reliability.
• Partner with frontend, platform, autonomy, and embedded teams to integrate services across applications and devices, supporting end-to-end system design from edge devices to cloud infrastructure and contributing to system-level architecture across the stack.
• Enforce secure development practices across backend systems, maintaining high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation while driving projects from concept to production in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.
• Work within a mission-driven company that values innovation, integrity, servant leadership, and ownership of all tasks, where you will grow technically and as a leader while solving hard problems in autonomous systems for real-world impact.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in backend or distributed systems engineering
• Strong expertise in Go and building highly concurrent systems
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers (formal or informal leadership)
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
• Strong API design and system architecture skills
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% Employer paid Health, Dental and Vision Insurance for you and your family
• Life Insurance (Employer Paid)
• Ability to participate in the company's 401k program with matching
• Unlimited PTO policy with an enforced 2 week minimum
• Equity Package
• Work / Home Office Stipend
• Global Entry
• 16 Week Paid Parental Leave
• Monthly Health and Wellness Stipend

Skills & Technologies

AWS

Kubernetes

Backend

Senior

Remote

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About Havoc AI Inc

Havoc AI Inc provides an autonomous drone-swarm platform for defense and security applications. The system integrates computer vision, real-time coordination, and modular payload capabilities to enable surveillance, reconnaissance, and kinetic effects at scale. Designed for contested environments, the software stack supports rapid deployment, adaptive mission planning, and human-on-the-loop oversight. Headquartered in Seattle, the company serves U.S. and allied government customers, focusing on asymmetric advantages through low-cost, high-volume unmanned systems.

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