Tech Lead
Chefman & CHEF iQ · Mahwah, NJ · 1 wk ago
Engineering$140k–$160k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the technical strategy across backend architecture, infrastructure, DevOps, and AI enabled engineering initiatives
- Identify opportunities to integrate AI driven solutions, automation, and intelligent tooling into both customer facing products and internal operations
- Lead initiatives focused on platform optimization, reliability, observability, and operational efficiency
- Drive infrastructure modernization across cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, logging frameworks, and deployment automation
- Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, AI platforms, and engineering tools that can improve developer productivity and system performance
- Establish engineering standards, code quality expectations, architectural best practices, and scalable development processes
- Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, analytics, and AI assisted diagnostics to reduce downtime and improve system health visibility
- Partner cross functionally with product, engineering, and leadership teams to align technical strategy with business objectives
- Mentor engineers while serving as a hands-on technical leader deeply involved in architecture and execution
- Drive infrastructure and cloud cost optimization strategies while balancing scalability, reliability, and speed
Qualifications
- 5–10 years of experience in software engineering with deep expertise in backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and scalable application architecture
- Strong experience with DevOps, CI/CD, automation, observability, and infrastructure reliability
- Proven ability to optimize application performance and architect systems designed for scale
- Experience evaluating or implementing AI driven tools, workflows, or platform capabilities within engineering environments
- Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, databases, frontend infrastructure, and cloud native technologies
- Comfortable operating in fast paced Agile environments with strong cross functional collaboration
- Strong leadership, communication, strategic thinking, and problem solving capabilities
Pay
Salary Range (commensurate with experience): $140,000 - $160,000 USD