Lead Software Engineer

We are seeking a Technical Lead to provide technical direction and architectural leadership for backend platform services, application integrations, and data driven systems. This role works closely with Senior Back End Software Engineers, data engineers, product managers, and platform teams to ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned to long term platform strategy.

The Technical Lead is a hands‑on senior engineer who sets technical direction, drives design decisions, and raises the overall engineering bar—while remaining actively involved in implementation, reviews, and operational ownership.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Own and evolve the technical architecture for platform services, application integrations, and data pipelines
• Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and platform standards
• Lead technical design reviews and ensure solutions align with scalability, reliability, and security principles
• Balance short‑term delivery needs with longterm platform health and maintainability
• Act as and/or work with Product owner to create Epics and Stories to facilitate Developer execution.
• Perform ad‑hoc analysis of incoming features to help scope out efforts and align technical partners.
• Guide the design of shared backend services and integration layers used across teams
• Establish best practices for API design, eventdriven architectures, data contracts, and schema evolution
• Ensure consistent integration patterns across batch and realtime streaming systems
• Act as the technical escalation point for complex crosssystem integrations
• Contribute production quality code alongside the team using Python, FastAPI, and AWS services
• Design and review systems built with AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate, Kafka, AWS Glue, and PySpark
• Guide data ingestion and transformation approaches using AWS DMS, streaming, and batch pipelines
• Ensure solutions are observable, testable, and operationally sound

Infrastructure, CI/CD & Platform Enablement

• Provide technical leadership for Terraformbased infrastructure as code
• Define standards and patterns for CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and environment management