Tech Lead

Role Description

As a Tech Lead, you will play a strategic role, serving as a technical reference and team leader. This position requires a balance between technical expertise, people leadership, and project management.

• Define team objectives and project goals, ensuring alignment with the company's broader strategies and objectives.
• Facilitate communication within the squad and across technical and non-technical teams, ensuring alignment and timely delivery of high-quality outcomes.
• Actively participate in the recruitment, training, and development of team members, fostering a productive and growth-oriented environment.
• Collaborate with other technical leaders, aligning technology strategies and contributing to the evolution of the company's technical direction.
• Ensure the technical quality of deliverables, providing guidance and support in solving complex problems.
• Promote the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices within your squad and chapter.
• Guide conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration in your team.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure technical initiatives are properly scoped and prioritized within the product backlog.
• Ensure implementation of quality and observability standards across the development lifecycle.
• Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement efforts, driving team evolution through feedback and actionable insights.
• Support team staffing decisions by matching people to tasks based on skills, priorities, and development opportunities.
• Support the definition and follow-up of individual development goals aligned with team objectives and business priorities.

Qualifications

• Academic background oriented toward computer science, engineering, or software development disciplines.
• Proven track record of leading teams and working in product-driven companies.
• Hands-on experience in backend (Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS) and optionally frontend development.
• Experience in Python is a plus.
• Experience with asynchronous programming.
• Experience working with domains of medium to high complexity.
• A solid understanding of how web and mobile applications work including security, session management, and best development practices.
• Knowledge of relational database systems and Object Oriented Programming.
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and experience designing or maintaining microservices-based systems.
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web and mobile technologies and techniques.
• Practical experience applying AI frameworks in development projects.
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and experience with agile methodologies.
• Advanced Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills.
• Ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Competence in defining clear objectives and ensuring the team meets project milestones.
• Experience guiding and leading teams to successful project deliveries within deadlines and budgets.
• Ability to evaluate and prioritize technical work based on business value, system health, and long-term platform goals.
• Experience conducting code reviews, driving knowledge sharing, and promoting collaborative development practices.
• Experience building and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Active contribution to aligning technological strategies with broader organizational objectives.

Soft Skills

• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with Product Managers, Product Owners, Squad Leaders, Designers, and other teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers, guiding career development, and fostering a growth-oriented, high-performance team environment.
• Capacity to make thoughtful, context-aware decisions that balance technical debt, delivery speed, and business impact.
• Ability to recognize team dynamics, support team members through challenges, and cultivate psychological safety.
• Proactive in owning outcomes, addressing blockers, and ensuring that the squad delivers on commitments.
• Comfortable working in changing environments, reprioritizing as needed, and adjusting to new business or technical demands.
• Skilled in managing disagreements constructively and promoting consensus through dialogue.
• Capable of influencing product and technical decisions at squad level and beyond.
• Oriented toward retrospectives, feedback loops, and implementing process and culture improvements.
• High degree of autonomy and accountability, with a bias for action and results-oriented problem solving.
• Comfort operating at both strategic and hands-on levels.
• Ability to make decisions based on accurate information, technical indicators, and impact metrics.

Industry-Specific Knowledge

• Practical familiarity with one or more core financial domains, such as lending, payments, credit cards, open finance, fraud prevention, merchant acquiring, or investment services.
• Leverage knowledge to guide the technical implementation of backend solutions.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and business stakeholders in defining priorities and making trade-offs.
• Translate domain-specific requirements into actionable tasks.
• Mentor engineers to understand the business context behind their work.
• Ensure the team delivers solutions that are robust, compliant, and aligned with customer needs.
• Help the squad connect technical work with revenue, performance, and user experience outcomes.

Benefits

• Competitive and market-aligned salary.
• Annual bonus.
• Remote work — wherever you are, you’re part of the team!
• Home office allowance through a monthly deposit in the RecargaPay app.
• Health and dental plans with no co-pay.
• Life insurance.
• Flexible meal allowance (via Flash).
• TotalPass membership to take care of your health.