Ali Jalali | Technical Team Lead | Backend Engineering Manager

Executive Summary

Technical Team Lead and Backend Engineering Manager with 9+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems in fintech and telecom. Strong in engineering leadership, roadmap ownership, backend architecture, and team growth, with a record of shipping reliable products serving millions of users.

9+ Years Backend engineering and technical leadership experience

1M+ Users Scaled products and services with high uptime

Millions High-volume requests in telecom and finance workloads

Work Experience

Pooleno, Tehran Jan 2026 - Present

Technical Team Lead

Leading backend engineering for a cryptocurrency exchange platform supporting real-time trading and IRR settlement workflows.
Architected high-availability, secure trading infrastructure for low-latency transaction processing and reliable wallet operations.
Designed resilient microservices for order management, wallet, and payment domains with strong consistency and fault tolerance.
Strengthened platform security with fraud detection controls, rate limiting, and encryption standards across critical transaction paths.
Owned hiring, mentoring, and performance growth practices including structured 1-on-1s, onboarding, and code review quality gates.
Drove technical roadmap alignment with product OKRs, compliance requirements, and quarterly delivery objectives.

MCI "Electronic Businesses Companion", Tehran Jun 2023 - Jan 2026

Principal Software Engineer

Designed and implemented the USSD service *9191#, handling tens of millions of requests with high reliability.
Built and launched Open Loop Credit Service with 1M+ active users, focused on scalability, uptime, and transactional integrity.
Optimized backend systems for high concurrency and low-latency operations across telecom and wallet services.
Delivered and maintained backend services for MyMCI and Ewano Wallet to support secure financial and telecom operations.
Acted as technical lead by guiding architecture decisions, mentorship, and engineering standards across the team.

Kargosha, Tehran Aug 2021 - Feb 2023

Full Stack Developer

Built scalable enterprise web systems and reusable architecture patterns adopted across 18 projects.
Raised automated test coverage to 89% using TDD practices and robust CI validation gates.
Implemented internal CI/CD workflows to improve release speed, deployment confidence, and team productivity.

Professional Development, Tehran Jun 2020 - Jul 2021

Full-Time Study

Completed intensive learning in backend engineering, distributed systems, and software architecture.
Deepened practical expertise in Go, Node.js, cloud-native patterns, and automated testing strategies.

Silver Tech, Tehran Mar 2019 - May 2020

Back End Developer

Led backend development of a high-traffic progressive web app with modern service-oriented architecture.
Improved engagement by 10% through architecture modernization and performance-focused backend enhancements.
Implemented secure API integrations and automated CI/CD pipelines for stable releases.

Saroj Saze, Tehran Mar 2018 - Feb 2019

Back End Developer

Refactored legacy search and data systems to improve query performance and maintainability.
Designed RESTful APIs and backend workflows supporting scalable internal and external services.
Built deployment pipelines and business modules that improved operational efficiency.