Tech Lead - Software Engineering

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Own platform technical direction and translate roadmaps into plans, milestones, and priorities.
• Lead architecture reviews, make and document trade-offs, and proactively address risks and dependencies.
• Code, review code, debug, and support production incidents while mentoring engineers.
• Own operational health, including alerts, on-call load, incident follow-through, and root-cause prevention.
• Partner with Product, TAM, and customer-facing teams to assess and resolve customer-impacting issues.
• Define safe, verifiable AI-assisted engineering practices and build LLM- and agent-based engineering and operations tools.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience and 2+ years of technical leadership experience.
• Demonstrated 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, SQL, and 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 standards for safe use and output verification.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Preferred qualifications

• Preferred: fraud, risk, payments, financial services, or another domain where false negatives have significant impact.
• Preferred: ML platforms or large-scale training pipelines, Kubernetes, LLM APIs, agent frameworks, tool calling, RAG, or MCP.
• Preferred: evaluations or regression tests for non-deterministic systems, hiring or mentoring engineers, and test-driven development.

Compensation and benefits

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