Technical Lead, Product Development

Accountabilities

• • Lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable Java-based backend services and REST APIs.
  • Provide technical leadership through architecture and design reviews, code reviews, technical decision-making, and mentoring.
  • Drive the scalability, reliability, security, and resilience of distributed systems supporting enterprise-grade products.
  • Collaborate with product, security, platform, and engineering stakeholders to define and deliver high-impact product capabilities.
  • Establish and promote engineering best practices for zero-downtime deployments, observability, production operations, and system resilience.
  • Contribute hands-on to complex technical initiatives while providing guidance and direction to product development teams.
  • Help ensure backend solutions are maintainable, secure, highly available, and capable of operating reliably at scale.

  Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software product development experience, including experience with products used at scale by customers.
  • At least 5 years of experience serving as a technical lead for product development teams.
  • Proven experience designing or developing identity, authentication, or related security platforms.
  • Strong expertise in Java, distributed systems, backend architecture, and REST API design.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and operating production-grade systems with high availability and zero-downtime deployment practices.
  • Strong knowledge of databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and/or NoSQL technologies.
  • Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-based application deployments.
  • Experience with system scalability, reliability, observability, and security engineering practices.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools and modern approaches to software development.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions and explain complex concepts clearly.
  • Demonstrated mentoring capabilities and the ability to guide engineers toward strong technical and engineering outcomes.

  Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead the development of secure, scalable products serving demanding enterprise environments.
  • High-impact technical leadership responsibilities across architecture, backend engineering, security, and platform reliability.
  • Collaboration with product, security, and platform teams on complex technology initiatives.
  • Opportunities to mentor engineers and influence engineering standards and best practices.
  • Exposure to modern technologies including Java, distributed systems, Kubernetes, Docker, cloud platforms, and AI-assisted development.
  • Professional growth through ownership of complex technical challenges and strategic engineering initiatives.