Senior Technical Lead
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About the Role
Lead a cross-functional squad of 5-10 engineers across backend, frontend, and mobile for multiple product areas. Own end-to-end delivery, architecture, and code quality while being hands-on with critical code paths.
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Responsibilities
- Lead a squad of 5 10 engineers across backend, frontend, and mobile
- Own architecture decisions inside product areas and partner on platform wide concerns
- Set engineering quality bars: PR review standards, test coverage, migration safety
- Drive technical roadmap conversion from product requirements
- Be hands on: write code on critical paths, unblock team, prototype, ship hotfixes
- Run incident response for production issues: root cause analysis, post mortems, prevention
Requirements
- 7+ years building production web platforms
- 2+ years leading engineering teams
- Experience with NestJS monorepos
- Experience with Next.js App Router
- TypeScript end to end (strict mode)
- Modern React (hooks, MUI, Tailwind)
- PostgreSQL at scale (schema design, indexing, query optimization)
- Experience with search platforms (Azure AI Search or Elasticsearch)
- Azure application platform experience (Container Apps, App Services, etc.)
- CI/CD on Azure DevOps Pipelines
- AI integration experience (Azure OpenAI, prompt design)
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About the role
- Manages cross functional team of full stack developers across multiple product areas on a shared microservices platform.
- Owns end to end delivery, architecture, and code quality for assigned product areas.
What you'll do
- Lead a squad of 5–10 engineers (backend, frontend, mobile) across sprint planning, design reviews, PR reviews, 1:1s, performance management.
- Own architecture decisions inside product areas and partner with other Tech Leads and Head of Technology on platform wide concerns.
- Set engineering quality bars: PR review standards, branching/cherry pick discipline, test coverage, migration safety, incident response.
- Drive technical roadmap conversion from product requirements — break down work, estimate, sequence, ship.
- Be hands on: write code on critical paths, unblock the team, prototype risky changes, ship hotfixes.
- Run incident response for production issues — root cause analysis, post mortems, prevention.
Must have experience
- 7+ years building production web platforms; 2+ years leading engineering teams.
- NestJS monorepos (apps + libs structure) — multiple apps per service sharing typed libs.
- Next.js App Router with server components, ISR/SSR, dynamic routes.
- TypeScript end to end (strict mode), modern React (hooks, MUI, Tailwind).
- PostgreSQL at scale — schema design, indexing, query optimisation, Sequelize ORM, migration discipline.
- Search platforms — Azure AI Search (scoring profiles, semantic configurations, synonym maps) and/or Elasticsearch.
- Azure application platform: Container Apps, App Services, Function Apps, Service Bus, Storage Blob, Front Door.
- CI/CD on Azure DevOps Pipelines — build → ACR push → container app update; cherry pick workflows.
- AI integration experience — Azure OpenAI (chat, embeddings), prompt design, structured JSON response format, retries/fallbacks.
Nice to have
- Marketplace / multi vertical platform experience.
- Mobile app delivery (Flutter or React Native) — Android + iOS.
- BullMQ / queue based async processing.
- Multi tenant / B2B subscription / quota systems.
- Regional payment integrations.
- Moderation systems (Implio or similar).
- ERP integration (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics 365).
- Third party ATS / recruitment integrations (e.g. Zoho Recruit).
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