Tech Lead - Sr. Software Engineer

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Summary

In this role, you’ll mentor the project team, share knowledge, and collaborate with the Solution Architect to determine project architecture. You’ll lead in developing projects, promoting best programming practices, and have influence over developers. Lastly, you’ll provide application support, develop and document applications, and maintain application documentation and configuration.

Job Description

As a Tech Lead Software Engineer, you are a hands‑on technical leader with end‑to‑end ownership of service‑level architecture, delivery outcomes, and production reliability. You set technical direction, make and communicate clear architectural tradeoffs, and lead through influence—aligning engineers, product, and partners around durable, scalable solutions. 

You design, build, and operate backend services as the organization modernizes from on‑prem to AWS, applying cloud‑native and event‑driven patterns to improve reliability, security, and developer velocity. You champion build‑it / run‑it ownership, ensuring services meet clear standards for quality, observability, and operational excellence. 

You accelerate delivery through AI‑ and agentic‑first engineering practices, establishing safe, repeatable workflows that improve throughput and quality while maintaining strong validation, security, and governance. You raise the engineering bar by mentoring others, setting clear guardrails, and continuously improving the systems and practices your teams rely on. 

Team Culture

Our mission is to empower our company, teammates, and customers through resilient, customer-centric technology. We leverage our technical expertise and deep business understanding to deliver impactful solutions. 

Mindset 

Ownership, customer obsession, growth mindset, think big — start small, bias for action, and relentless pursuit of engineering excellence. 

Why Join Us 

Impact: Build platforms used across the business; modernize critical systems, development agentic-first solutions. 
Growth: Leadership development, career advancement, and cutting-edge tech adoption. 
Culture: Inclusive, collaborative, and innovation-driven. 
Career Paths: Multiple advancement opportunities available. 

How You'll Spend Your Time

Technical Leadership 

• Set and communicate technical direction, aligning engineers around clear priorities, architectural intent, and delivery outcomes  
• Lead through influence, partnering with product, platform, and dependent teams to drive alignment without relying on positional authority  
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point, resolving complex challenges while balancing speed, quality, and long‑term sustainability  
• Raise the engineering bar, mentoring through design reviews, code reviews, and shared standards that elevate team capability  
• Model ownership and accountability, leading by example with a bias for action and end‑to‑end responsibility 
   

Modern Software Development 

• Own service‑level architecture and technical decisions, defining APIs, data models, messaging patterns, resiliency, and error handling that scale and endure  
• Lead system modernization, decomposing monoliths into well‑bounded, cloud‑native services using domain‑driven and evolutionary architecture principles  
• Design and evolve event‑driven systems, establishing reliable pub/sub patterns, schema and versioning strategies, and failure handling  
• Set data architecture direction, modeling access patterns across relational and NoSQL stores for correctness, performance, and cost efficie