Tech Lead, Software Engineer

We are seeking a Tech Lead who operates at the intersection of technical excellence, product thinking, and team leadership. You will set technical direction, make high-leverage architectural decisions, and ensure the delivery of scalable, high-quality systems.

As a Tech Lead, you will own the technical success of one or more project areas, guiding design and implementation while enabling other engineers to do their best work. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and client stakeholders to translate ambiguous problems into clear technical strategies and shipped solutions.

The ideal candidate brings strong system design skills, sound judgment, and a bias toward ownership. You are comfortable balancing speed and quality, coaching engineers through complexity, and raising the bar for engineering standards across the team.

Technical Leadership & Direction

• Set and evolve the technical direction and architecture for projects and domains.
• Break down ambiguous product requirements into clear technical approaches and execution plans.
• Identify key risks and blind spots early, providing technical “early unlocks” for the team.
• Make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, quality, and scope, and clearly communicate those decisions.
• Lead by example through hands‑on contribution to critical or complex parts of the system.

• Own the end‑to‑end technical delivery of project areas, from design through production and ongoing maintenance.
• Ensure systems are robust, secure, performant, and accessible (including load testing, security considerations, and remediation).
• Proactively identify technical debt and guide the team toward sustainable solutions.
• Maintain accountability for outcomes, not just implementation.

• Design and implement scalable, resilient, and maintainable full‑stack systems.
• Advocate for sound technical solutions, build consensus with stakeholders, and rally engineers behind a shared approach.
• Create and share architectural decisions, patterns, and domain knowledge that scale beyond a single project.
• Look beyond the immediate task to consider long‑term system health and team efficiency.

• Champion high standards of craftsmanship, code quality, and system design.
• Establish and reinforce best practices around testing, reviews, documentation, and observability.
• Simplify code and infrastructure where possible, prioritizing long‑term maintenance and migration costs.
• Drive consistency and reuse to improve developer velocity and avoid reinvention.
• Mentor and support engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and day‑to‑day technical guidance.
• Enable others to take ownership by providing clarity, context, and feedback.
• Communicate technical designs and decisions clearly through documentation, diagrams, and proofs of concept.
• Partner effectively with Product and non‑technical stakeholders, translating between business needs and technical solutions.

Minimum requirements for success in this role:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including significant ownership of production systems.
• Experience acting as a technical lead, staff‑level engineer, or informal team lead on complex projects.
• Advanced proficiency in English, both verbal and written.
• Deep understanding of system design, data modeling, and API design (REST and/or Graph
  
  QL).
• Experience building and scaling full‑stack web applications (e.g., React, Node).
• Familiarity with microservices, containerization (Docker), and enterprise‑grade CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience leading technical work in complex or regulated domains (e.g., fintech, healthcare, government).
• Strong intuition for front‑end performance, design systems, and user experience trade‑offs.
• Experience with Dev Ops practices and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).
• A track record of raising engineering standards and improving team effectiveness.

• You prefer clearly defined tasks without ownership over technical direction…