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.

• 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, event‑driven architectures, data contracts, and schema evolution
• Ensure consistent integration patterns across batch and realtime streaming systems
• Act as the technical escalation point for complex cross‑system 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 Py Spark
• Guide data ingestion and transformation approaches using AWS DMS, streaming, and batch pipelines
• Ensure solutions are observable, testable, and operationally sound

• Provide technical leadership for Terraformbased infrastructure as code
• Define standards and patterns for CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and environment management
• Guide decisions around networking, load balancing, service discovery, and scaling
• Ensure infrastructure and delivery pipelines support safe, repeatable, lowrisk releases

• Participate in the oncall rotation and serve as a senior escalation point during incidents
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postincident reviews
• Drive improvements in system resiliency, monitoring, alerting, and automation
• Promote a culture of operational excellence and shared ownership
• Mentor senior and midlevel engineers through design guidance, code reviews, and technical coaching
• Raise engineering quality through standards, documentation, and best practices
• Partner with Product and TPMs to shape technical scope, sequencing, and delivery plans
• Influence without authority, helping teams make better technical decisions

The Technical Lead will guide and work within the following technology stack:

• Python
• FastAPI
• AWS Lambda
• ECS Fargate
• DynamoDB
• Kafka
• AWS Glue
• Py Spark
• AWS DMS
• Terraform
• Route 53 & AWS Load Balancers
• Streaming and Batch Data Processing
• Qlik (analytics / BI consumption)

• Data warehousing and analytical modeling concepts
• Familiarity with event‑driven, microservices, and API first architectures
• Experience supporting enterprise application integrations (ERP, CRM, SaaS platforms)
• Amazon Redshift

• 8+ years of experience in backend, platform, or distributed systems engineering
• Prior experience acting as a technical lead or architecture owner
• Strong proficiency in Python and cloud‑native backend development
• Deep experience with AWS services and distributed architectures
• Handson experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience supporting production systems with oncall responsibilities
• Strong understanding of streaming and batch integration patterns

• Platform architecture is clear, consistent, and well adopted
• Engineers are aligned on standards, patterns, and best practices
• Integrations…