Technical Lead - Engineering Talent Acceleration | Onsite - Delaware

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and delivery of the developer portal (self-service tooling, documentation, service catalog).
• Deliver DORA metrics and OKR dashboards to measure delivery health across engineering teams.
• Identify and prioritize friction points in the developer experience; ship platform/process fixes.
• Define and evangelize modern architecture patterns and testing practices as organization-wide guidance.
• Set standards for production operations (on-call, runbooks, operational readiness) across teams.
• Design and deliver the technical curriculum for upskilling engineers, including on AI-assisted development (Copilot, Claude Code, and emerging tools like BMAD/Kiro/GSD etc).
• Drive community building initiatives (guilds, brown bags, internal tech talks) and organize hackathons.
• Evaluate and pilot new AI development tools/skills, and decide what gets adopted org-wide.
• Run day-to-day delivery of the offshore development team supporting the portal and dashboards: sprint commitments, code review, real-time unblocking, and hands-on work on critical-path items.
• Report delivery status, risks, and blockers to engineering leadership.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years as a tech lead owning end-to-end delivery of developer-experience or platform initiatives (not a pure design/review architect role).
• Proven track record of shipping developer-platform initiatives on committed timelines, including hands-on troubleshooting under delivery pressure.
• Proven experience building and operating a developer portal (e.g., Backstage or equivalent).
• Strong experience designing DORA metrics/OKR dashboards and using them to drive engineering improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose organizational friction points and translate them into platform or process solutions.
• Deep, broad knowledge of modern architecture patterns and testing practices across multiple tech stacks.
• Experience with production operations standards (incident response, runbooks, SRE practices).
• Proven experience designing technical curricula and running enablement/training programs at scale.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (Git Hub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar) and evaluating emerging tools.
• Experience running hackathons and community-building programs.
• Financial-services or regulated-industry engineering-culture experience preferred.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills; able to influence across the engineering org and directly manage day-to-day delivery of an offshore team (standups, unblocking, sprint accountability).

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Direct experience with Backstage plugin development.
• Familiarity with emerging AI dev tools (Specprime, BMAD, Kiro, or similar) beyond mainstream Copilot/Claude Code.
• Experience speaking at or organizing external developer conferences/meetups.
• Background in technical training/curriculum design as a primary discipline (e.g., prior Dev Rel or L&D role).

Compensation, Benefits and Duration

Minimum Compensation: USD 56,000 Maximum Compensation: USD 196,000 Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role. Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full-time employees. This position is not available for independent contractors No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post