Tech Lead (Indianapolis, US)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead solution design and implementation for platform features, integrations, and services
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical designs and delivery plans
• Drive the full software development lifecycle: requirements, design, build, test, release, and production support
• Establish technical direction and ensure alignment to architecture and engineering standards
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex production issues and cross-system integrations
• Develop and maintain enterprise-wide shared services
• Ensure operational readiness through observability, runbooks, release validation, and incident learnings
• Maintain clear and current technical documentation (architecture, operational procedures, engineering practices)
• Coach engineers through pairing, design reviews, and structured feedback to raise technical capability and consistency
• Enforce engineering practices and quality standards, and ensure adoption through mentorship and accountability
• Guide work planning practices (estimation, sequencing, risk management) to improve predictability and delivery outcomes
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and ownership
• Provide performance management feedback with the team.

Quality & Standards Ownership

• Enforce engineering quality standards including:
• coding standards and review expectations
• automated testing strategy (unit/integration/API/regression)
• release readiness criteria and “definition of done”
• effective and efficient pull request management
• Drive defect prevention practices and continuous improvement using metrics and post-incident learnings
• Ensure consistent technical decision documentation and transparent engineering communication

Required Platform / Runtime Experience

• Strong experience building and delivering enterprise applications using Java
• Kafka (event streaming concepts, producers/consumers, reliability patterns)
• Redis (caching strategies, TTLs, data modeling, performance considerations)
• Strong relational database experience with MySQL (schema design, indexing, transactions, performance tuning)
• Observability/APM experience (monitoring, tracing, logging, alerting, production diagnostics)
• Experience designing and building REST APIs
• Experience with distributed systems / microservice architectures and integration troubleshooting
• CI/CD and Release Engineering (Required): Experience designing and creating Azure CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying enterprise applications
• Familiarity with release management practices including gated approvals, environment promotion, rollback strategy, and deployment validation