Tech Lead, Foundations

Lead the technical direction of a shared-services team supporting a talent platform. The work combines hands-on software development with architecture decisions, engineering guidance, and collaboration across product and domain teams. The role focuses on reliable foundations that help other teams deliver product work efficiently.

• Guide shared services for identity, authentication, access control, and notifications.
• Design partner data integrations using APIs, events, webhooks, or file exchanges, with clear contracts and observability.
• Build reusable services, libraries, and patterns, and document them so other teams can adopt them.
• Contribute code across front end and back end, review changes, and set standards for design, quality, and security.
• Coordinate with product, security, and compliance partners on identity, consent, and data handling needs.
• Plan milestones, balance platform investments with feature requests, and mentor engineers.

• Strong experience in system design and API design, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to nontechnical partners.
• Ability to lead technical direction while contributing code and supporting engineers through review and mentorship.
• Experience with shared platform services, integrations, and operational ownership is relevant to the stated scope.
• Ability to work across product and engineering teams to define requirements, sequence work, and drive adoption.
• The role is remote for candidates in Eastern or Central time zones; some travel is required.

• Experience with HR systems or applicant tracking integrations, education data standards, or privacy and security frameworks such as SOC 2, FERPA, or GLBA.
• Prior experience mentoring engineers or moving toward engineering management.

The listing describes a player-coach role with no direct reports initially and potential to manage as the team grows.

• Benefits include cash and equity compensation, health, dental and vision coverage, student loan repayment, a 401(k) match, and flexible paid time off.