Hi, we are Storyteq! 👋Storyteq helps marketing and creative teams in top brands to scale their creative production and gain control over their marketing campaigns. Through our platform, our clients can streamline campaign workflows, automate their creative production through templates &amp; AI and activate engaging campaigns that go to market faster.We believe creativity takes time, but creative production shouldn’t. Since 2016 our mission has been to revolutionize the way creative assets are created and used. Magic happens when we let technology empower creativity. Our endless curiosity and relentless commitment to our customers lies at the heart of our problem-solving approach. This shared mission is woven into our values: we dream big, think differently, and are stronger together.About the jobYou’ll likely join our Assets domain, where we’re scaling up to support a growing range of use cases—from intelligent asset search and real-time transformations to AI-powered tagging and seamless integration with our templating and distribution tools. You’ll be the technical lead for a team focused on the backend services that power our DAM platform at scale, ensuring fast, reliable, and intelligent asset delivery across the ecosystem.You’ll work closely with engineering peers, product managers, and architects to align on technical direction, drive implementation, and ensure high engineering standards. While you’ll remain hands-on, a key part of your role will be guiding others through technical decisions, mentoring, and championing best practices.Key responsibilities:<ul> <li>Take ownership of technical direction and architecture within the team</li> <li>Build and ship robust backend services with real product impact</li> <li>Ensure backend systems are scalable, performant, and easy to maintain</li> <li>Guide engineers through technical decisions and mentor them in best practices</li> <li>Collaborate with other teams to integrate services and deliver end-to-end value</li> <li>Model business domains into clean, efficient data structures</li> <li>Lead by example in engineering excellence, pragmatism, and shared ownership</li> </ul>Key requirements:<ul> <li> Experience leading technical delivery within a team or project</li> <li> Confident in making architectural decisions and communicating trade-offs</li> <li> Comfortable mentoring and supporting engineers to help them grow</li> <li>5+ years of hands-on experience delivering backend or full-stack products with TypeScript (and JavaScript)</li> <li>Strong backend development skills with Node.js </li> <li>Solid experience designing and integrating REST and/or GraphQL APIs </li> <li>Comfortable working in monorepo environments and modular architectures</li> <li>Proficient in data modeling and working with SQL/NoSQL databases</li> <li>Familiar with testing practices, performance tuning, and scalable design principles</li> <li>Experience working in SaaS or product-based environments </li> <li>You’re proactive, result-driven, and excited to work in a fast-growing tech scale-up</li> <li>You’re a strong team player who values collaboration and shared success</li> </ul>Nice to have(s):<ul> <li> Hands-on with DAM concepts like versioning, metadata, and access control</li> <li> Designed or contributed to asset pipelines for processing, optimizing, and delivering media content</li> <li>Built systems for secure, performant asset access at scale</li> </ul>