Tech Lead

About the role

Requirements

• QUALIFICATIONS:
• - Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field; Master’s preferred.
• - 5+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of a delivery team.
• - Deep expertise across backend or frontend engineering with strong breadth across the stack.
• - Proven experience facilitating Agile delivery within a squad.
• - Payments, banking, or regulated financial services experience.
• - Certifications in Cloud Architecture, Software Architecture, or other relevant professional certifications are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Main Duties and Responsibilities:
• - Provide technical leadership for a squad while remaining an individual contributor.
• - Define technical approaches, engineering standards, and implementation patterns for assigned products.
• - Lead technical design and development of complex systems and critical components.
• - Facilitate squad ceremonies and own team-level delivery cadence and technical planning.
• - Break down features into technical work and support estimation and sequencing with the Product Owner.
• - Provide technical guidance to engineers and resolve complex engineering challenges.
• - Review solution designs, code, and implementations for quality and architectural alignment.
• - Drive engineering best practices for scalability, security, performance, maintainability, and reliability.
• - Ensure squad delivery meets change governance, release, and regulatory requirements.
• - Evaluate technical options and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, and design patterns.
• - Identify technical risks, dependencies, and constraints and recommend mitigations.
• - Support architecture decisions and ensure consistency across integrated systems.
• - Drive resolution of critical production issues requiring advanced engineering expertise.
• - Mentor engineers through coaching, knowledge sharing, and code reviews, without direct people-management accountability.
• - Collaborate with architecture, product, platform, quality, and engineering stakeholders on delivery.

Skills

• Backend engineering
• Frontend engineering
• Agile delivery
• Technical leadership
• Software architecture
• Cloud Architecture
• Code reviews
• System design
• Performance optimization
• Security engineering
• Regulated financial services domain
• Production issue resolution
• Technical mentoring
• Stakeholder collaboration
• Release governance