{"id":889438,"date":"2025-08-18T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/welovesalt.com\/mena\/jobs\/%wpbb_job_industry%\/technical-lead-backend-net"},"modified":"2025-08-18T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:08:10","slug":"technical-lead-backend-net-889438","status":"publish","type":"wpbb_job","link":"https:\/\/welovesalt.com\/mena\/jobs\/technology\/web-mobile-development\/technical-lead-backend-net-889438","title":{"rendered":"Technical Lead &#8211; Backend (.NET)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a <strong>Technical Lead &#8211; Backend (.NET)<\/strong>, you will lead the backend engineering team and play a critical role in shaping system architecture, guiding development practices, and ensuring the delivery of scalable, reliable, and secure backend solutions. You will act as a hands-on technical expert and team leader-allocating resources, coaching developers, and supporting product delivery. You will collaborate closely with Product, QA, and DevOps teams, and be expected to dive into code when needed, especially for complex integrations or proof-of-concepts.<\/p>\n<p>The ideal candidate combines strong architectural thinking, deep backend expertise (<strong>.NET, Java, NodeJS<\/strong>), and a people-first leadership style. 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