Technical Lead (Remote)

Responsibilities

• Serve as the day-to-day technical authority for the engineering team as the person engineers turn to for direction, unblocking, and decision-making.
• Drive engineering culture: establish norms around code quality, review practices, documentation, and team communication.
• Own architectural decision-making in partnership with the principal engineer and senior leadership by documenting tradeoffs, building consensus, and driving to resolution.
• Actively mentor engineers across experience levels; invest in individual growth as a core part of the role, not a side responsibility.
• Run or co-run technical ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog refinement, architecture reviews, and retrospectives.
• Translate product and business requirements into clear technical plans the team can execute against.
• Identify and surface technical debt, risk, and blockers proactively before they become incidents.
• Partner closely with the Technical Director, Product, PM, and operations stakeholders as the engineering team's primary technical voice.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of full stack engineering experience in production systems (or commensurate experience).
• Demonstrated experience formally or informally leading an engineering team with clear ownership of team outcomes, not just individual output.
• Strong TypeScript/Node.js backend development experience.
• Solid frontend experience with React or equivalent modern framework.
• Proven track record designing event-driven or workflow-oriented architectures.
• Solid PostgreSQL skills including schema design, transactional workflows, migrations.
• Hands-on AWS experience across core services (EC2, ECS/ECR/EKS, S3, IAM, SSM).
• Experience owning and improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• Comfortable operating in regulated, high-assurance environments (government, finance, or healthcare).

Clearance Required

Ability to obtain and maintain a Suitability / Public Trust clearance required.

Posted Salary Range

USD $160,000.00 - USD $165,000.00 /Yr.