Tech Lead – Backend

  • Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Engineering
  • Full-Time
  • On-Site
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Job Description:

About the Role

We are looking for a Tech Lead – Backend to join our Colombo office and take a leading role in building the intelligence layer of Brontë, our AI-native risk and compliance platform. You will own critical backend systems end-to-end, mentor engineers, and contribute to architectural decisions that shape how we deliver transformative RegTech solutions to financial institutions worldwide.

This is the right opportunity for you if you have a strong backend foundation, a genuine excitement for modern AI technologies, and the drive to solve hard problems at the intersection of graph data, LLMs, and real-world regulatory systems.

What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power our AI-driven risk and compliance platform

  • Lead the architecture and implementation of RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, and agentic AI workflows within the backend intelligence layer

  • Work with Neo4j and graph data models to represent complex risk relationships and regulatory structures

  • Define and enforce backend engineering best practices, code quality standards, and review processes across the team

  • Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and risk domain experts including Sydney-based leadership to translate compliance requirements into robust technical solutions

  • Own delivery end to end, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and monitoring on AWS

  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, and technical guidance

  • Contribute to strategic technical discussions and help shape the team's roadmap for AI and backend capabilities

  • Stay current with developments in AI, LLMs, and graph technologies, and identify opportunities to apply them in our product

Who We're Looking For

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical discipline — or professional certifications in cloud, AI, or security (e.g. AWS Certified Developer, Google Professional ML Engineer, Neo4j Certified Professional)

  • 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience, with a strong command of Python and RESTful or GraphQL API design

  • Proven experience building and integrating AI or ML components including LLMs, vector search, or RAG architectures into production systems

  • Solid understanding of graph databases, ideally Neo4j, and comfort modelling complex domain relationships

  • Experience deploying and operating backend services on AWS (Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, or similar)

  • Demonstrated ability to lead technically, whether through architecture decisions, code reviews, or cross-functional collaboration

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders clearly

  • A structured approach to problem-solving, with high attention to detail and a bias for clean, maintainable code

  • Comfort working in ambiguous, evolving environments where requirements are shaped collaboratively

  • High agency and ownership you take problems end-to-end without waiting to be asked

What You'll Gain

  • Competitive foreign currency salary

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI-native products shaping the future of risk and compliance

  • A senior voice in backend architecture decisions at a growing RegTech company.

  • Deep hands-on exposure to AI, graph technologies, and financial risk systems

  • A culture built on trust, learning, and solving genuinely hard problems that matter to financial institutions worldwide

Please submit your CV to [email protected] and quote "Tech Lead – Backend " in the subject line.