7+ years of experience in building and operating production SaaS applications.
5+ years of experience with Java and Spring Boot.
Familiarity with Angular and Single Page Application (SPA) development.
Experience with containers and cloud-native application patterns.
Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and modern software delivery.
Experience in a DevOps environment, focusing on deployment and production support.
Proven ability to lead technical decisions and mentor engineers.
Responsibilities
Create a culture of distributed technical ownership within the team.
Drive the use of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for significant technical decisions.
Encourage engineers to lead technical design while providing guidance.
Manage technical debt and architectural risks actively.
Contribute directly to complex and high-risk engineering tasks.
Mentor and develop engineers, setting clear performance expectations.
Partner with Product to translate priorities into actionable technical plans.
Benefits
Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
Collaborative and supportive team environment.
Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance.
Access to the latest tools and technologies for engineering.
Participation in hiring and onboarding processes.
Full Job Description
The Tech Lead is a hands-on engineering leader responsible for the technical health, quality, and execution of an engineering team.
This is a player-coach role. The Tech Lead is not the team's architect or the person who makes every technical decision. Their job is to create an environment where engineers make good technical decisions that are explicit, documented when appropriate, and aligned with established patterns and precedent.
Success means building a team that does not depend on the Tech Lead to make good technical decisions.
Technical Governance
Create a culture of distributed technical ownership and decision-making.
Drive the use of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for significant decisions.
Ensure decisions consider tradeoffs, risks, and existing architectural precedent.
Encourage engineers to lead technical design, providing guidance and challenge rather than prescribing solutions.
Drive engineering best practices across design, development, testing, security, observability, performance, and reliability.
Keep technical debt and architectural risk visible and actively managed.
Hands-On Engineering
Stay close to the code and systems the team owns.
Contribute directly to complex, high-risk, or strategically important work.
Participate in technical design and code reviews.
Pair with engineers on difficult problems and provide technical leadership during production incidents.
Hands-on work should focus where it provides the most leverage to the team, not on maintaining the capacity of a full-time individual contributor.
Team Leadership
Directly manage, mentor, and develop engineers.
Set clear expectations around quality, ownership, and performance.
Provide regular feedback and career development.
Develop engineers' ability to independently own technical design and decisions.
Participate in hiring, onboarding, and performance management.
Engineering Execution
Partner with Product to turn priorities into technically sound plans.
Ensure complex work receives appropriate technical discovery and design before development.
Surface technical risks, dependencies, and complexity early.
Balance delivery with technical debt, reliability, and long-term platform health.
Own the engineering execution and technical outcomes of the team.
Experience
7+ years experience building and operating production SaaS applications.
5+ years experience with Java and Spring Boot.
Familiarity with Angular and Single Page Application (SPA) development.
Experience with containers and cloud-native application patterns.
Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and modern software delivery.
Experience working within a DevOps philosophy, including ownership of deployment, observability, reliability, and production support.
Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, data modeling, performance, scalability, and security.
Demonstrated experience leading technical decisions and developing engineers.
