Tech Lead Backend Developer (Node.js or Go)

Overview

Position Overview

Responsibilities

• Run an engineering team of 4 to 8 engineers as its technical owner, accountable for the team's delivery and engineering health
• Set the technical direction for your team's domain and defend the decisions you make
• Write production code regularly, including in the most complex parts of the codebase
• Review code from every engineer on the team and use review as a teaching channel
• Plan delivery alongside your Product Owner: break work down, manage risk, and push back on scope when needed
• Own incidents in your domain end to end and coordinate across teams when required
• Mentor and grow your engineers, including giving direct performance feedback when needed
• Represent your team's technical posture to partners, vendors, and senior stakeholders

Requirements

• Strong depth in at least one of our core stacks (TypeScript, Go) and the ability to ramp on the others
• Prior Tech Lead or technical leadership experience
• A track record of owning a service or product area in production over multiple quarters
• Proven experience leading engineers, whether as a Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, or Senior who has driven technical direction on major projects
• Demonstrated delivery in a startup or scale-up environment under shifting requirements
• Comfort with the harder parts of the role: telling someone their work isn't good enough, saying no to senior stakeholders, and owning the call when it's genuinely ambiguous
• Effective use of AI coding tools as a force multiplier for the team, not just for yourself
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills; able to explain technical decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (preferred)
• Desired Skills (a big plus):
• Fintech, banking, or other regulated-industry background
• Exposure to partner-driven delivery, especially integrations with banks, asset managers, or platform vendors
• Experience leading Agile/Scrum delivery and setting team rhythm
• Contributions to open-source projects or personal projects that show what you build when nobody's watching