Tech Lead Sr. Software Engineer

Bonus Type

Summary

In this role youll mentor the project team share knowledge and collaborate with the Solution Architect to determine project architecture. Youll lead in developing projects promoting best programming practices and have influence over developers. Lastly youll provide application support develop and document applications and maintain application documentation and configuration.

Job Description

As a Tech Lead Software Engineer you are a handson technical leader with endtoend ownership of servicelevel architecture delivery outcomes and production reliability. You set technical direction make and communicate clear architectural tradeoffs and lead through influencealigning engineers product and partners around durable scalable solutions.

You design build and operate backend services as the organization modernizes from onprem to AWS applying cloudnative and eventdriven patterns to improve reliability security and developer velocity. You champion buildit / runit ownership ensuring services meet clear standards for quality observability and operational excellence.

You accelerate delivery through AI and agenticfirst engineering practices establishing safe repeatable workflows that improve throughput and quality while maintaining strong validation security and governance. You raise the engineering bar by mentoring others setting clear guardrails and continuously improving the systems and practices your teams rely on.

Team Culture

Our mission is to empower our company teammates and customers through resilient customer-centric technology. We leverage our technical expertise and deep business understanding to deliver impactful solutions.

Mindset

Ownership customer obsession growth mindset think big start small bias for action and relentless pursuit of engineering excellence.

Why Join Us

Impact: Build platforms used across the business; modernize critical systems development agentic-first solutions.
Growth: Leadership development career advancement and cutting-edge tech adoption.
Culture: Inclusive collaborative and innovation-driven.
Career Paths: Multiple advancement opportunities available.

How Youll Spend Your Time

Technical Leadership

• Set and communicate technical direction aligning engineers around clear priorities architectural intent and delivery outcomes
• Lead through influence partnering with product platform and dependent teams to drive alignment without relying on positional authority
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point resolving complex challenges while balancing speed quality and longterm sustainability
• Raise the engineering bar mentoring through design reviews code reviews and shared standards that elevate team capability
• Model ownership and accountability leading by example with a bias for action and endtoend responsibility
  

Modern Software Development

• Own servicelevel architecture and technical decisions defining APIs data models messaging patterns resiliency and error handling that scale and endure
• Lead system modernization decomposing monoliths into wellbounded cloudnative services using domaindriven and evolutionary architecture principles
• Design and evolve eventdriven systems establishing reliable pub/sub patterns schema and versioning strategies and failure handling
• Set data architecture direction modeling access patterns across relational and NoSQL stores for correctness performance and cost efficiency
• Establish architectural guardrails using patterns reference implementations and lightweight reviews to enable autonomy with alignment
• Make and revisit pragmatic tradeoffs documenting decisions and adapting as requirements scale or constraints change
  

Agentic AIFirst Engineering

• Lead adoption of AI and agenticfirst development practices integrating AI into coding testing reviews documentation and CI/CD
• Design governed repeatable agentic workflows for multistep engineering tasks with clear humanintheloop controls
• Set standards for validating AI outputs ensuring security correctness maintainability and standards alignment
• Measure and optimize impact improving throughput quality and developer experience based on outcomesnot novelty
• Enable responsible experimentation empowering teams to innovate within defined guardrails and shared learnings
  

Quality Delivery & Operations

• Own production quality and reliability ensuring services meet clear expectations for availability performance and resiliency
• Define and enforce quality mechanisms establishing testing strategies CI quality gates and review standards that make correctness the default
• Operate what you build taking endtoend responsibility from development through deployment oncall readiness and incident remediation
• Lead operational excellence defining observability standards SLIs/SLOs and actionable alerts to proactively manage system health
• Ensure predictable delivery improving flow through automation CI/CD maturity and reduced operational friction
• Embed security and compliance by design addressing regulatory and risk requirements without slowing delivery
• Drive continuous improvement using incidents metrics and retrospectives to strengthen systems processes and practices

Education & Experience Requirements

This level of knowledge is normally acquired through the completion of a bachelors degree in a technology field and/or 8 years of related experience. Technology certifications are preferred. It is also preferred that the candidate have Banking and Financial Service experience.

Must-Have

• Demonstrated technical leadership as a Tech Lead or senior ICowning servicelevel architecture influencing decisions and serving as a technical escalation point
• Strong backend engineering experience designing and operating secure scalable services (Java or JVMbased environments preferred)
• Production experience building cloudbased systems including handson experience with AWS (compute messaging storage) and cloudnative patterns
• Experience designing eventdriven architectures including publish/subscribe patterns message durability idempotency retries and failure handling
• Buildit / runit ownership mindset with experience supporting services in production participating in oncall and driving incident remediation
• Strong quality discipline including test strategy (unit integration contract) CI/CD quality gates and rigorous code review practices
• Proven ability to collaborate across teams working effectively with product platform security and dependent engineering groups
• Excellent technical communication skills able to clearly document and explain architectural decisions and tradeoffs
  

Nice-to-Have

• Experience modernizing legacy or onprem systems including decomposition strategies and evolutionary migration to AWS
• Practical application of domaindriven design concepts such as bounded contexts aggregates and hexagonal architectures
• Experience with AIassisted or agentic development tools and familiarity with defining guardrails and validation practices
• Experience with containerization orchestration or serverless platforms such as Docker Kubernetes/EKS ECS or Lambda
• InfrastructureasCode experience using tools like Terraform or CDK
• Experience with observability platforms (e.g. New Relic Datadog Prometheus) and SLOdriven reliability practices
• Experience with NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB or Redis and performanceaware data modeling
• Familiarity with API gateways and integration patterns such as Kong or Apigee
• Experience operating in regulated environments with awareness of PCI SOX or similar requirements