Technical Lead Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead Engineer to provide deep technical leadership across multiple teams and drive the design and execution of complex, cross-cutting engineering initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and execution of large, complex, cross-team engineering initiatives.
• Develop architectural standards and reference patterns adopted across multiple engineering teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence the technical direction of the organization.
• Lead detailed technical design reviews and architectural decision-making for high-impact initiatives, ensuring designs are well-scoped, trade-offs are made explicit, and outcomes are documented for future reference.
• Operate at the intersection of strategy and execution, translating long-term goals into concrete engineering plans.
• Drive significant improvements in reliability, scalability, and performance of critical platforms.
• Lead production incident response and post-incident learning for major issues.
• Partner with engineering managers, product, and executives on technical roadmaps.
• Set and uphold the engineering hiring bar through technical interviews, structured calibration, and contributions to recruiting initiatives that grow the team without diluting quality.
• Contribute hands-on code where most leveraged, focusing on high-impact components.
• Drive engineering culture, including code quality, documentation, and operational rigor.
• Represent engineering in cross-functional planning, prioritization, and roadmap discussions, helping product, design, and business stakeholders make informed decisions grounded in real technical trade-offs.
• Author and review technical RFCs, architecture decision records, and design documents that crystallize key technical decisions and create durable institutional memory across the engineering organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Eight or more years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven track record of leading complex, cross-team engineering initiatives.
• Deep expertise in at least one of distributed systems, cloud platforms, or large-scale data systems.
• Strong programming skills in at least one major backend language.
• Excellent system-design and architecture skills.
• Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership of senior engineers.
• Strong understanding of operational excellence, reliability, and observability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Track record of influencing engineering culture and standards.
• Experience driving multi-year platform modernization initiatives.
• Public technical contributions (talks, papers, OSS) in relevant areas.
• Hands-on experience operating large-scale production systems.
• Exposure to building engineering organizations as well as platforms.
• Familiarity with FinOps and cost-aware engineering practices.