Backend Unit Lead

TradingView is the world's largest financial analysis platform with more than 100M users across 180+ countries.

We build tools that help traders and investors make informed decisions - from advanced charting and market data to collaboration and publishing features. Our products are used daily by millions of individuals and trusted by companies like Revolut, Binance, and CME Group.

We're continuing to grow and scale our platform, and we're looking for people who care about product quality, take ownership of their work, and want to build systems used by a global audience.

About the team

We are looking for aUnit Leadto take on technical and organizational leadership of the unit and grow it as a single platform rather than three separate teams. This is a "leader of leaders" role, with a focus on strategy, reliability, people, and processes. While you will manage team leads, we expect you to remain technically hands-on-deeply understanding our codebase, system design, and architecture. Key expectations are a strong engineering background in distributed systems, the ability to balance reliability, tech debt, and product work, and experience growing team leads.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap of the Hub unit, prioritization, and alignment of the three teams as a single platform.
• Dive deep into complex technical domains, working closely with Architects to resolve critical tech debt and optimize system performance.
• Manage the team leads of UDF, UDF Storage, and DevOps/SRE: development, goal setting, feedback, and growth through grades.
• Own platform reliability: SLO/SLA, availability and latency, on-call culture, incident reviews, and reducing incident count.
• Develop the Disaster Recovery / BCP direction: RTO/RPO, dual-hub and recovery scenarios, regular readiness checks.
• Own capacity planning and scaling, and operations on Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
• Run hiring, performance reviews, grade and compensation justifications, and engineer development within t…