Lead Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and architecture of a domain or major system.
• Act as the primary technical owner of multiple team-developed solutions.
• Lead architectural decisions and keep services and domains aligned.
• Understand full business workflows and system lifecycles.
• Set technical standards, best practices, and engineering quality.
• Mentor, coach, and develop senior and mid-level engineers.
• Raise engineering excellence and delivery discipline.
• Lead technical planning, prioritization, and strategic initiative execution.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Leadership to translate business goals into technical strategy.
• Identify systemic risks and address scalability, reliability, and security.
• Improve developer experience and team effectiveness across the domain.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a technical lead or team lead role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Solid experience developing web services and APIs, and writing high-quality, testable code.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and solid experience with SQL databases and their fundamentals.
• Good understanding of event-driven architecture and messaging services such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and proficiency with version control tools, preferably Git.
• Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies.
• Ability to solve strategic challenges, prioritize initiatives, and drive them to execution.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire multiple engineers and deliver high-impact outcomes.
• Strong communication skills bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to lead chapter meetings and drive strategic initiatives.

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