Tech Lead Engineer US - Remote

Elite is the trusted automation platform for law firm operations across most of the world’s largest and most successful law firms. Elite has guided firms through every technology shift and today delivers the only cloud-native SaaS platform that unifies financial, invoice, time, and data management into a single system of action. With embedded AI, predictive analytics, and integrated payments, Elite’s products enable firms to shorten billing cycles, reduce write-offs, and unlock firm‑wide insights, making financial operations the foundation for law firm innovation and growth.

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As a Tech Lead Engineer, you are a senior technical leader responsible for driving the successful execution of Elite’s product and platform roadmap. You combine deep hands‑on engineering expertise with strong technical leadership, guiding architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high standards across the software development lifecycle.

You will lead complex technical initiatives end-to-end, partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership, and serve as a role model for engineering excellence. This role requires someone who is execution‑oriented, quality‑driven, and passionate about building scalable, secure, cloud‑native SaaS solutions in a high‑performing environment

Remote

This role requires the individual to be based in Flexible across U.S. time zones.

• Provide technical leadership for complex, high‑impact initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with product and business objectives.
• Lead system and component‑level architecture design in partnership with engineers and architects.
• Own end‑to‑end technical execution for key projects, from design through delivery, proactively managing risks and dependencies.
• Translate high‑level designs into well‑scoped tasks, estimates, and implementation plans.
• Design, implement, and evolve cloud‑native architectures using modern patterns (microservices, event‑driven systems, API‑first design) , technologies and tools.
• Set and enforce high engineering standards through code reviews, CI/CD, testing, TDD, observability, and Dev Ops practices.
• Build, prioritize, and manage technical debt and drive performance, scalability, and reliability improvements using data‑driven insights.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering strong engineering judgment, collaboration, ownership, continuous learning and skill development.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, UX, QA, Security, and Infrastructure teams to deliver solutions that meet functional and non‑functional requirements.
• Clearly communicate technical trade‑offs, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Support alignment between product priorities and technical execution, ensuring predictable, high‑quality delivery.
• Remain deeply hands‑on, contributing with high‑quality, production‑ready code for critical components and complex problem areas.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, applying strong diagnostic and problem‑solving skills.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt modern technologies and tools that improve system reliability and team effectiveness.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support departmental and company objectives.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related STEM field
  , or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of professional software development experience building complex, scalable business applications.
• Expert‑level proficiency in the Microsoft stack, including C# /.NET Core and Angular
  .
• Strong hands‑on experience with Azure cloud services
  , including Azure Container Apps, App Services, Event Hub and API Management.
• Proven…