Engineering Tech Lead

Upbound Group, Inc.

$120K — $145K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years building complex applications with high availability
  • Proficient in Elixir and familiar with additional languages
  • Experience using AI tools like Claude and GitHub Copilot for software development
  • Proven project management and team leadership experience
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Strong problem-solving ability and attention to detail
  • In-depth understanding of software development principles and best practices

Responsibilities

  • Provide hands-on technical leadership and guide engineers through design decisions
  • Own the team's technical solution and ensure feasibility and scalability
  • Lead refinement and ensure backlog readiness from a technical perspective
  • Drive technical execution including integration contracts and API design
  • Implement non-functional requirements like performance and observability
  • Support test strategies and ensure technical readiness for releases
  • Assist with release readiness and provide technical leadership during go-live events

Benefits

  • Full health benefits including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) match
  • Discretionary time off (DTO)
  • Health savings account (HSA) with company contribution
  • College tuition reimbursement for STEAM degrees
  • Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
Full Job Description
Job Description:

ENGINEERING TECHNICAL LEAD

(Draper, Utah-On-site)

(No Sponsorships)

JOB PURPOSE

The Technical Lead is a hands-on technical leader who partners closely with Engineering Managers, Product management, Architects, QA, and engineers to design and deliver high-quality software solutions. This role provides day-to-day technical direction, shapes the team's solution approach, and leads detailed design and implementation decisions across the delivery lifecycle. The Technical Lead ensures integrations, APIs, and non-functional requirements such as performance, resiliency, and observability are effectively implemented, while supporting refinement, release readiness, and production stability. Through close collaboration and technical mentorship, the Technical Lead drives execution quality, alignment to standards, and continuous improvement across the team. In this role, you are responsible for participating as part of the team and contributing to the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing and deployment. You will design, code, test, troubleshoot, document and support application programs and/or system interfaces utilizing modern software programming languages and other tools.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership and detailed technical direction, guiding engineers through design and implementation decisions across the delivery lifecycle.
  • Own and execute the team's technical solution, supporting solution approach definition and ensuring designs are feasible, scalable, and aligned with architectural direction.
  • Lead refinement and backlog readiness from a technical perspective, ensuring requirements are well understood, dependencies are identified, and work is executable.
  • Drive day-to-day technical execution, including integration contracts, API design, and adherence to enterprise and team technology guardrails.
  • Own non-functional requirement implementation (performance, resiliency, observability) within the team's solutions.
  • Partner on test strategy and quality execution, supporting quality gates and ensuring technical readiness for release.
  • Support release readiness, go-live, and production incident response, providing technical leadership during deployments and operational events.
  • Collaborate closely with Engineering Managers, Architects, QA, and Engineers to ensure technical alignment, delivery predictability, and continuous improvement.
  • Implementing best practices in engineering processes and methodologies to enhance team efficiency.
  • Staying updated with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation within the team.
  • Fostering a positive team culture that encourages creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement


QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, related field or equivalent professional experience
  • 8+ years of overall experience building complex applications, highly available systems and integrating third party API's
  • Proficient with Elixir development as well as other languages
  • Experience with incorporating AI tools like Claude and Github Copilot in daily work to increase overall efficiency of software development
  • Proven experience in project management and team leadership.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
  • Strong understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices
  • Familiarity with Typescript, JavaScript and Node.js
  • Experienced with AWS cloud platform development
  • Experience working with PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases
  • Experience with other programming languages to include Ruby, Kotlin, Python or Java
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)


COMPENSATION/BENEFITS
  • Competitive compensation
  • Full health benefits-Medical/Dental/Vision
  • 401(k) match
  • DTO (discretionary time off)
  • Health savings account (HSA) with company contribution
  • College tuition reimbursement program (STEAM degrees)
  • Unlimited use of LinkedIn Learning

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