Technical Lead (Remote)

United States

Suitability/Public Trust

Fully remote

Software Engineering Services

Overview

GovCIO is hiring a Technical Lead to join a skilled, motivated team building a secure, event-driven digital submission and processing platform for a federal agency customer. This is a fully remote position requiring the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will own the technical direction of the team day-to-day and will set engineering standards, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers across the stack, and build the kind of team culture that turns good engineers into a high-performing unit. You will also carry individual contributor responsibilities, working across frontend and backend to ship and review meaningful code. The right candidate leads by example and understands that technical credibility and people investment are not in competition.

Responsibilities

Leadership Responsibilities

• Serve as the day-to-day technical authority for the engineering team as the person engineers turn to for direction, unblocking, and decision-making.

• Drive engineering culture: establish norms around code quality, review practices, documentation, and team communication.

• Own architectural decision-making in partnership with the principal engineer and senior leadership by documenting tradeoffs, building consensus, and driving to resolution.

• Actively mentor engineers across experience levels; invest in individual growth as a core part of the role, not a side responsibility.

• Run or co-run technical ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog refinement, architecture reviews, and retrospectives.

• Translate product and business requirements into clear technical plans the team can execute against.

• Identify and surface technical debt, risk, and blockers proactively before they become incidents.

• Partner closely with the Technical Director, Product, PM, and operations stakeholders as the engineering team's primary technical voice.

Individual Contributor Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and review full stack features across TypeScript/Node.js backend services and React-based frontend.

• Build and evolve event-driven pipelines, task orchestration, and asynchronous workflows.

• Lead integration work with AI/ML and OCR-based document processing partners by defining contracts and ensuring reliability across system boundaries.

• Drive modernization of AWS infrastructure used for current-generation services, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code adoption.

• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines: reliability, deployment velocity, and observability.

• Enforce security, authentication, and authorization patterns appropriate for regulated environments.

• Diagnose and remediate production issues including performance bottlenecks, data integrity problems, and deployment failures.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of full stack engineering experience in production systems (or commensurate experience).

• Demonstrated experience formally or informally leading an engineering team with clear ownership of team outcomes, not just individual output.

• Strong TypeScript/Node.js backend development experience.

• Solid frontend experience with React or equivalent modern framework.

• Proven track record designing event-driven or workflow-oriented architectures.

• Solid PostgreSQL skills including schema design, transactional workflows, migrations.

• Hands-on AWS experience across core services (EC2, ECS/ECR/EKS, S3, IAM, SSM).

• Experience owning and improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent).

• Comfortable operating in regulated, high-assurance environments (government, finance, or healthcare).

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience integrating with AI/ML APIs, OCR services, or document intelligence platforms.

• Familiarity with modern AWS container and serverless patterns (ECS Fargate, Lambda, Step Functions).

• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, CDK, or similar).

• Keycloak or comparable identity/auth platform experience.

• Experience leading teams through a platform modernization or significant technical debt reduction effort.

• Prior experience in a player-coach role-shipping code while owning team-level outcomes simultaneously.

Clearance Required: Ability to obtain and maintain a Suitability / Public Trust clearance required.

Posted Salary Range

USD $160,000.00 - USD $165,000.00 /Yr.

Company Overview

GovCIO is a team of transformers--people who are passionate about transforming government IT. Every day, we make a positive impact by delivering innovative IT services and solutions that improve how government agencies operate and serve our citizens.

But we can't do it alone. We need great people to help us do great things - for our customers, our culture, and our ability to attract other great people. We are changing the face of government IT and building a workforce that fuels this mission. Are you ready to be a transformer?

What You Can Expect

Interview & Hiring Process

If you are selected to move forward through the process, here's what you can expect:

• During the Interview Process

• Virtual video interview conducted via video with the hiring manager and/or team

• Camera must be on

• A valid photo ID must be presented during each interview

• During the Hiring Process

• Enhanced Biometrics ID verification screening

• Background check, to include:

• Criminal history (past 7 years)

• Verification of your highest level of education

• Verification of your employment history (past 7 years), based on information provided in your application

Employee Perks

At GovCIO, we consistently hear that meaningful work and a collaborative team environment are two of the top reasons our employees enjoy working here. In addition, our employees have access to a range of perks and benefits to support their personal and professional well-being, beyond the standard company offered health benefits, including:

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Corporate Discounts

• Learning & Development platform, to include certification preparation content

• Training, Education and Certification Assistance*

• Referral Bonus Program

• Internal Mobility Program

• Pet Insurance

• Flexible Work Environment

*Available to full-time employees

Our employees' unique talents and contributions are the driving force behind our success in supporting our customers, which ultimately fuels the success of our company. Join us and be a part of a culture that invests in its people and prioritizes continuous enhancement of the employee experience.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. EOE, including disability/vets.

Posted Pay Range

The posted pay range, if referenced, reflects the range expected for this position at the commencement of employment, however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, education, experience, and internal equity. The total compensation package for this position may also include other compensation elements, to be discussed during the hiring process. If hired, employee will be in an "at-will position" and the GovCIO reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, GovCIO or individual department/team performance, and market factors.