This is a remote position
Position Summary:
We are seeking a Software Engineering Tech Lead to provide technical leadership, project execution, and people leadership for a team of software engineers. This role combines hands-on software development responsibilities with accountability for technical direction, engineering excellence, and team development.
Key Responsibilities: Technical Leadership
- Lead the technical delivery of software projects using C#, .NET, PostgreSQL, React, and modern web technologies.
- Enforce engineering standards, development practices, and architectural guidelines defined by technology leadership.
- Contribute to application designs, database designs, APIs, and code to ensure quality, scalability, maintainability, and security.
- Make technical trade-offs and architectural decisions that balance business needs, delivery timelines, and long-term maintainability.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks before they impact delivery, quality, or system performance.
Software Development
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications, APIs, and backend services.
- Lead the development of modern user experiences using React and related frontend technologies.
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL databases, queries, indexing strategies, and data access patterns.
- Drive implementation of automated testing, code quality controls, and secure development practices.
- Participate directly in software development and remain hands-on with application architecture and implementation.
Quality, Performance, and Reliability
- Establish engineering practices that improve software quality, reliability, and maintainability.
- Ensure applications meet performance, scalability, availability, and security requirements.
- Drive adoption of monitoring, diagnostics, and operational tooling to proactively identify and resolve issues.
- Lead root cause analysis and resolution efforts for production incidents and critical defects.
Team Leadership & People Management
- Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and mentorship for software engineers.
- Conduct performance management activities including goal setting, feedback, career development, and performance evaluations.
- Participate in hiring, onboarding, and development of engineering talent.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Serve as the primary technical escalation point for the engineering team.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Product Managers, Principal Engineers, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality software solutions.
- Translate business requirements int