Tech Lead

Senior Tech Lead

Role: Senior Tech lead at least 8+ and 2+ years as tech lead already. Ideal is 10+ years Senior Tech Lead and 5+ years as tech lead.

*Note, Ropes.ai Assessment required for this role

Required skillset

Core Responsibilities

• Drive technical design for team initiatives. Translate product direction and architectural guidance into clear technical approaches that engineers can execute with confidence.
• Stay deeply hands‐on. Contribute to design and implementation, review code and technical changes, and lead by example through strong engineering practices.
• Guide day‐to‐day technical decision‐making. Help engineers navigate tradeoffs, resolve complex technical problems, and choose solutions that balance quality, performance, and long‐term maintainability.
• Uphold high engineering standards. Reinforce expectations around reliability, scalability, security, testing, and operational readiness across the team's work.
• Mentor engineers through technical growth. Provide practical coaching, feedback, and technical guidance that helps teammates strengthen skills and judgment.
• Leverage cloud‐first and AI‐assisted engineering practices. Use modern cloud platforms and AI‐enabled tools to reduce friction, improve code quality, and accelerate delivery.
• Identify and address technical risks and impediments. Surface concerns early, simplify constraints where possible, and partner with architects or subject‐matter experts when deeper alignment is needed.
• Collaborate closely with the Delivery Manager and Product partners. Align on technical direction, sequencing, and dependencies to support effective delivery.
• Foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement. Encourage experimentation, reflection, and thoughtful evolution of technical approaches and team practices.
• Contribute beyond immediate team. Participate in cross‐team initiatives, planning discussions, and special projects that strengthen engineering practices across the organization.

Requirements

• Full-stack
• 8+ years of software development experience, including 2+ year in a Technical Lead
• Strong experience designing and delivering production‐grade software in cloud‐based environments
• Demonstrated technical leadership through hands‐on contribution, mentoring, and technical guidance
• A quality‐first mindset, with experience building reliable, scalable, and observable systems
• Comfort using AI‐assisted engineering tools to improve developer productivity, code quality, and delivery flow
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering managers, product partners, and cross‐functional stakeholders
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tooling, with preference for GitHub-based workflows
• Strong backend development skills using Java, Springboot, ECS, Docker, Typescript, NodeJS in Agile environment with Jira and confluence knowledge
• Experience with frontend development technologies (Angular/React, JavaScript/Typescript, CSS, Jest)
• Proficiency in Python.
• Proficiency in DevOps concepts, tools and continuous delivery pipelines, specifically Git, Github, Splunk
• Proficiency in AWS technologies: CloudFront, S3, ECS, IAM, KMS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SNS, SQL, Cloudformation, API Gateway
• Proficiency in authentication and authorization, eg, auth0, oidc, Active Directory
• Proficiency in Relational database, SQL, Cache eg. Redis and data modeling
• Proficiency in Shell scripting, bash, linux/unix environment, powershell in Windows environment
• Claude Code

Optional skillset:

• Genesys, Honeycomb, Grafana, AWS Glue, Athena