About the Role As a Tech Lead, you'll play a dual role - acting as both a hands-on engineer and a technical leader for a Scrum team composed of 5 engineers and 2 QA.
You'll own the delivery, quality, and scalability of your team's sprint deliverables while staying deeply involved in the codebase. Working closely with a Staff Engineer, you'll align on architecture, contribute to shared technical initiatives, and uphold engineering excellence across the organization.
Key Responsibilities Team & Delivery Leadership - Serve as the technical leader for your Scrum team, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of sprint goals.
- Work hands-on as an individual contributor, contributing code, conducting code & design reviews, and solving complex technical challenges.
- Drive sprint planning, estimation, and execution in partnership with Product Management and QA.
- Ensure predictable, on-time delivery while balancing short-term sprint goals with long-term technical health.
- Promote agile best practices, collaboration, and a strong sense of ownership within the team.
Technical Execution & Ownership - Design, develop, and maintain critical components in Java, Angular, and MySQL, following modern engineering practices.
- Ensure solutions meet high standards of performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Uphold and apply architectural principles, coding guidelines, and system design patterns established by the Staff Engineer group.
- Lead technical design discussions, propose improvements, and guide the team through implementation details.
- Participate in cross-team collaborations on shared libraries, CI/CD improvements, and platform-level enhancements.
Quality & Continuous Improvement - Drive a culture of engineering excellence, emphasizing code quality, maintainability, and automation.
- Collaborate with QA engineers to ensure robust test coverage and high-quality releases.
- Proactively identify and reduce technical debt through refactoring and better design practices.
- Support continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring in partnership with the DevOps team.
Mentorship & Collaboration - Mentor engineers within your team, helping them grow technically and professionally.
- Collaborate with Staff Engineers for architectural guidance, technical reviews, and systemic improvements.
- Foster clear communication across engineering, QA, and product teams to align priorities and resolve blockers efficiently.
Qualifications Required:
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a Tech Lead or senior individual contributor capacity.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java (Spring Boot or equivalent), Angular, and MySQL.
- Proven ability to balance leadership responsibilities with active development work.
- Experience leading Agile/Scrum teams and ensuring delivery quality, scalability, and maintainability.
- Strong understanding of software design principles, system architecture, and performance optimization.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across disciplines.
Preferred:
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures or microservices.
- Exposure to DevOps practices, observability tools, and production monitoring.
- Passion for technical mentorship and continuous improvement.
