Technical Lead

Location: [City / Remote / Hybrid] | Type: Full-time | Reports to: Engineering Manager

About the Role: You'll design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable software that powers our products. You'll work with product owners, QA, and SRE in an agile team, owning features from design through production.

Responsibilities: Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality backend and/or full-stack features. Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and take part in code reviews. Build and consume REST APIs and integrations with third-party systems. Troubleshoot and resolve production issues. Contribute to monitoring, alerting, and root-cause analysis. Improve CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and developer tooling. Work with product owners to refine requirements and estimate work. Keep technical documentation up to date. Mentor junior engineers. Follow secure coding practices and help remediate vulnerabilities and dependency updates.

Required Qualifications: 3+ years of professional software development experience. Strong proficiency in at least one of Ruby/Rails, Java/Spring, Python, or Node.js. Adjust to your stack. Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and SQL optimization. Experience with Git, pull-request workflows, and CI/CD.Solid grasp of data structures, OOP, API design, and testing (unit, integration).Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications: Cloud experience (AWS), including SQS/SNS, S3, and ECS/EKS.Docker and Kubernetes. Observability tools (New Relic, Datadog) and incident response. Experience with message queues, event-driven architecture, or Kafka. Familiarity with HR-tech or ATS integrations (e.g., job-board and Indeed Apply APIs).Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. Success in the First 90 DaysShip your first production change within 30 days. Own a small feature or bug-fix stream by 60 days. Join the on-call rotation and lead a code review by 90 days.

Benefits: [Compensation range, health, PTO, equity, learning budget]