Technical Operations Lead

This is your next job As Technical Operations Lead, you'll join our forward-thinking team to design, enhance, and expand the software solutions that help stabilize modern energy grids. You will work closely with a passionate group of energy and IT professionals to seamlessly integrate new customers, optimize renewable energy management, and scale our platform across diverse international markets. Beyond hands-on development, you will rapidly take ownership of critical production systems and operational processes. This role is designed as a fast-track position for high performers: within a short time, you will be expected to drive major operational improvements, take responsibility for system reliability and customer-facing operations, and grow into a technical and operational leadership role at the core of our business. Why you should be excited about this opportunity - Innovative Technology: Lead the operation and continuous improvement of cutting-edge systems that directly address the stability challenges of modern energy grids and enable large-scale renewable energy integration. - High-Ownership Growth Environment: Take full technical ownership of our production systems and operations, actively shaping both the platform architecture and the operational toolchain as the company scales. - Collaborative Leadership Culture: Work within a highly collaborative, open team where your technical leadership, clear communication, and forward-thinking approach directly influence both strategic decisions and day-to-day execution. What you will do - Own and evolve the operation of fast, scalable production systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability. - Build and maintain fast, scalable server-side applications. - Design robust APIs and data models with PostgreSQL as your go-to database. - Lead cloud deployment, monitoring, and scaling strategies in AWS to support business-critical workloads. - Drive systematic debugging, testing, and performance optimization across all back-end services. - Continuously evaluate and introduce modern tools, patterns, and best practices, translating them into measurable operational improvements. This is you - 5+ years of professional experience as a backend engineer. - Strong backend skills in Python (FastAPI), Go, or both. - Comfortable with PostgreSQL (or similar SQL databases). - Working knowledge of Docker and cloud platforms like AWS. - Familiar with RESTful API design and back-end architecture. - You care about code quality, performance, and testing, and know when to ship. - Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git), agile workflows and a good understanding of how modern codebases are maintained and deployed. CI/CD tools, containers, or infra-as-code is a plus. - Naturally curious and driven by solving complex problems, digging deep until the root cause is truly resolved rather than stopping at the first answer. - You are comfortable working in live operational environments, where reliability and precision matter. Did we manage to get you excited? Send your CV, references and certificates to recruiting@gridmetry.com. We're looking forward to hearing from you.