Tech Lead​/Engineering Lead

Title:

Tech Lead/Engineering Lead

Compensation: $90.00-$97.00/Hour

Location:

Burbank, CA
* Hybrid onsite requirement*

Duration: 12 month contract

Work Requirement: US Citizen, GC Holder, or Authorized to work in the U.S.

As part of the Studio Economics transformation, we are evolving how finance, business, and technology collaborate—shifting to lean‑agile, user‑centric small product‑oriented delivery teams (PODs) that design and deliver integrated, intelligent, and scalable solutions.

As the Engineering Lead, you are the most senior engineer embedded in the pod. You own the technical execution, uphold engineering excellence, and guide the pod in building scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions. You partner closely with the Technical Product Owner (TPO) and work alongside product, data, and platform teams to ensure delivery is not just timely—but aligned to our architecture standards, platform ecosystem, and long‑term business goals.

This is a hands‑on leadership role—you'll code, review, mentor, and architect, while fostering a culture of curiosity, craftsmanship, and continuous learning.

• Define and evolve architecture aligned to our organization's platform and enterprise patterns, emphasizing modularity, composability, and scalability.
• Design and implement service boundaries, integration strategies, and APIs leveraging modern architectural approaches (e.g., event‑driven, microservices, serverless).
• Collaborate with platform, data, and architecture teams to define consistent patterns for application layering, schema alignment, and observability.
• Balance pragmatic delivery with a vision for long‑term extensibility—minimizing rework while avoiding premature complexity.
• Lead coding standards, code reviews, and automated testing practices (unit, integration, and E2E).
• Guide adoption of best‑in‑class CI/CD workflows, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Champion performance, security, and operational readiness in every stage of the software development lifecycle.
• Serve as a player‑coach—modeling strong engineering practices, pair programming, and problem solving in real‑time.
• Mentor junior and mid‑level engineers, helping them grow in system thinking, modern development, and technical decision‑making.
• Encourage a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and experimentation.
• Define and enforce non‑functional requirements (e.g., latency, error budgets, fault tolerance).
• Surface technical risks early and propose mitigation strategies—whether performance bottlenecks, integration gaps, or legacy constraints.
• Embed testing, monitoring, and alerting into the development process to enable operational visibility and runtime stability.
• Work with the TPO to shape a balanced backlog that delivers user value while addressing technical debt and foundational needs.
• Coordinate with platform and Dev Ops teams to align on shared services, environments, and deployment pipelines.
• Support technical spikes, proof‑of‑concepts, and rapid prototyping that accelerate product discovery and de‑risk delivery.

• 8+ years in full‑stack development
• Experience building distributed systems with strong proficiency in Java/Spring Boot, Angular (or React/Vue)
• Dev Ops fluency:
  Proven track record designing and delivering AWS‑native architectures (Lambda, API Gateway/App Sync, Step Functions, Event Bridge, Dynamo
  
  DB/RDS, S3)
• 8+ years of CI/CD fluency:
  Hands‑on with CI/CD pipelines.
• Git Hub Actions or AWS Code Pipeline, Infrastructure as Code (Cloud Formation/CDK/Terraform), and automated testing frameworks.

• 1) Lead From Within – You're hands‑on, guiding the team not just through words but through code, collaboration, and curiosity.
• 2) Build with Purpose – You care not only about the "how" but also the "why." You optimize for outcomes, not just output.
• 3) Navigate Complexity Pragmatically – You know when to deliver fast and when to invest in foundational work. You manage trade‑offs with clarity and intention.
• 4) Uphold a Systemic View – You think beyond features and look at performance, observability, integration integrity, and long‑term maintainability.
• 5) Coach, Don't Command – You elevate those…