Senior Backend Engineer - Tech Lead

Senior Backend Engineer - Tech Lead

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work.

We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here.

We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

Why choose Zerto? Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, empowers customers to run an always-on business by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications. 

Zerto‘s revolutionary industry-leading product is trusted by over 9,500 customers globally and is powering offerings for Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and more than 350 managed service providers.

We are continuously innovating, extending our core technology to support evolving customer needs, in areas such as ransomware recovery and Kubernetes protection, as well as being a leading part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s strategic GreenLake initiative, building the world’s best edge to cloud as-a-service platform. 

We’re looking for a strong hands-on senior Backend Engineer (Tech lead) with a passion for technical excellence and leadership. 

The Tech Lead serves as the technical owner of one or more domains within the product — driving architecture, design, and code quality while mentoring developers and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. 

In this role, you’ll lead by influence, not hierarchy — partnering closely with Product Leads and Domain Architects to ensure scalable, maintainable, and high-performing solutions.

You’ll balance hands-on technical work with guiding others, setting engineering standards, and shaping the technical roadmap.  

The team is comprised of 3-5 seasoned and expert engineers, with a focus on code quality and data-driven decision-making.

The team owns the most critical component of the product and holds our core intellectual property (IP). 

What You’ll be Doing: 

· Own the technical quality, design, and roadmap for your domain(s). 

· Drive engineering best practices through design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentoring. 

· Collaborate with Product Leads on prioritization, backlog, and feasibility decisions. 

· Contribute to architectural discussions and cross-domain alignment. 

· As the technical authority in your team you’ll ...