We are looking for a Technical Lead who will operate at a cross-team level, driving architecture, engineering standards, and technical governance across multiple projects. This role goes beyond a typical team-level Tech Lead and focuses on enabling other Tech Leads, ensuring consistency, and improving overall engineering maturity. The ideal candidate is a strong full-stack engineer (Python + React) with deep architectural expertise and the ability to guide teams hands-on.
Key Responsibilities\:
- Architecture & Design Governance\:
- Define and standardize architecture patterns and design principles
- Review and guide critical technical designs across teams
- Ensure systems are scalable, secure, and aligned with long-term vision
- Drive technology selection and standardization
2. Engineering Standards & Best Practices\:
Establish and enforce\:
- Coding standards
- Code review practices
- Testing strategies
- Drive adoption of\:
CI/CD pipelines\:
- Code quality tools (e.g., SonarQube)
- DevOps best practices
- Ensure consistency across all teams
3. Tech Lead Enablement\:
- Mentor and support team-level Tech Leads
- Help resolve complex technical challenges
Conduct\:
- Design reviews
- Knowledge-sharing sessions
- Technical workshops
- Act as a technical escalation point
4. Full Stack Technical Leadership\:
Provide hands-on guidance in\:
- Backend development using Python
- Frontend development using React
Ensure best practices in\:
- API design and integration
- UI architecture and performance
- End-to-end system design
- Support teams in building scalable full-stack applications
5. Cross-Team Alignment\:
Break silos and promote reusable components and shared services
Ensure alignment across projects on\:
- Architecture
- Tools
- Frameworks
- Collaborate with Engineering Managers and Product teams
6. Innovation & Productivity\:
- Drive initiatives around\:
- AI adoption
- Developer productivity
- Automation
- Improve developer experience and delivery efficiency
Required Skills & Experience\:
- Strong full-stack development experience using Python and React
- Hands-on experience with Python backend frameworks, including\:
- Django
- Django REST Framework
- FastAPI
- Flask
- Strong experience in designing and developing REST APIs and third-party system integrations
- Hands-on experience with React, including\:
- Modern frontend architecture
- State management
- Component design and reusability
- Frontend performance optimization
- Experience with PostgreSQL, including\:
- Relational database design
- Query optimization
- Indexing and performance tuning
Deep understanding of\:
- System design and distributed systems
- Microservices and service-oriented architecture
- API design, authentication, and integrations
- Scalable and high-performance application architecture
Cloud & DevOps\:
Strong hands-on experience with GCP is preferred; equivalent experience with Azure or AWS may be considered
Experience with GCP services such as\:
- Cloud Run
- Cloud SQL
- BigQuery
- Secret Manager
- Cloud Scheduler
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Knowledge and hands-on experience with\:
- CI/CD pipelines
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Docker and containerized deployments
- Cloud Run or Kubernetes
- Git-based development and branching workflows
- Redis or equivalent caching solutions
Engineering Practices\:
- Strong understanding of application security, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization
- Experience with application monitoring, logging, observability, and troubleshooting
- Experience with code quality and static analysis tools such as SonarQube
Strong understanding of testing strategies, including\:
- Unit testing
- Integration testing
- API testing
- End-to-end testing
- Knowledge of secure coding practices and common application security standards
- Experience with code reviews, coding standards, and engineering best practices
- AI & Modern Stack (Good to Have)\:
- Exposure to AI/ML or LLM-based solutions
- Familiarity with agentic development / automation frameworks
Soft Skills\:
- Strong technical leadership and mentoring ability
- Excellent communication and collaboration
- Ability to influence without authority
- Strong problem-solving mindset