Tech Lead - Software Engineering

About DataVisor

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Own technical direction for real-time detection, streaming, storage, and training pipelines; turn roadmaps into plans and milestones.
• Identify risks and trade-offs; lead architecture reviews, make decisions, and document rationale.
• Code, review, debug, support incidents, mentor engineers, and improve design, quality, and execution.
• Own operational health, alerts, on-call load, incident follow-through, and root-cause prevention.
• Partner with Product, TAM, and customer-facing teams to assess and prioritize customer-impacting issues.
• Define safe AI-assisted engineering standards and build/evaluate LLM tools for triage, root-cause analysis, alert summaries, and evaluation.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience and 2+ years of technical leadership experience.
• Ability to lead team technical outcomes, including work not personally implemented.
• Deep production Java experience; working proficiency in Python and Shell scripting.
• Experience designing, building, shipping, and operating distributed real-time systems at scale.
• Strong knowledge of computer systems, relational databases, and SQL; experience with multithreaded and concurrent applications.
• Hands-on experience with Cassandra, Yugabyte, Flink, Spark, or Kafka; experience with Spring Framework.
• Production use of AI coding tools and ability to set team standards for their use and verification.
• Ability to validate model outputs against source code, logs, documentation, and production behavior.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is required.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in fraud, risk, payments, financial services, or another high-impact false-negative domain.
• Experience owning ML platforms or large-scale training pipelines; Kubernetes experience.
• Experience with LLM APIs, agent frameworks, tool calling, RAG, or MCP; evaluation or regression testing for non-deterministic systems.
• Experience hiring, managing, or mentoring engineers; test-driven development experience.

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary range is CAN $130,000–$170,000, commensurate with experience.
• Benefits include health insurance, paid time off, and equity.