Lead Backend Software Engineer

Description: About SITE Technologies:

SITE Technologies, founded in 2018, is on a mission to revolutionize facility management with cutting-edge AI solutions that empower enterprise customers to operate more efficiently.

We embrace a hybrid work culture, with remote and Chicago team members working seamlessly to deliver a great product to our customers. We believe in innovation, teamwork, and having fun along the way. Our Core Values define how our team shows up every day:

• Solve Impossible Problems
• Embrace Empathy & Integrity
• Own Your Outcome
• Do The Best Work of Our Lives
• Together We Thrive

If you're looking to be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking team where your work makes an impact, come join us!

Working at SITE Technologies

SITE Technologies is seeking a hands-on Lead Backend Software Engineer to lead and grow a small backend team while personally building and evolving SITE's platform and related customer systems. This is a player-coach role: the Lead will directly manage 3 to 4 senior backend engineers, set technical direction, remain deeply involved in the architecture, implementation, quality, and operation of critical backend systems, and oversee nearshore engineers or consultants as the team evolves. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic, product-minded engineer and thoughtful people manager who can turn complex operational workflows and user needs into clear technical plans, reliable data models, stable API contracts, and delivered product outcomes. This person will partner closely with product managers, other technical teams, and business stakeholders to ship backend systems for geospatial data, imagery, asset workflows, reporting, third-party integrations, and AI product experiences.

Requirements

What you'll do

• Lead the technical design and hands-on implementation of core backend APIs and services, primarily in Python and FastAPI
• Set architectural direction for domain models, relation...