The Team Lead is an Architect and Principal Engineer who drives technical and implementation  strategy for a squad developing a new SaaS-based product. The Team Lead is responsible for  working with the Engineering Leadership and Product Management to identify and implement  development process improvements, architecture and software design best practices, and  optimal resourcing plans with the ultimate goal of building and releasing high-quality SaaS  products that delight our customers. This role may advance to a Technical Manager role with  direct reports.  

What you’ll need to be successful:  

• Degree in Computer Science or related or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years experience in software development
• 3+ years of providing technical leadership
• Python, Flask, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, GraphQL
• React, Next.js, TypeScript, Webpack
• Relational DBs and modern data lake architectures
• Event-driven architecture
• Distributed systems including integrating with third-party SaaS APIs
• Architecting, designing, and implementing scalable cloud-based software, with experience in: ● full-stack performance and scalability monitoring and testing
• cloud-based security
• developing and deploying microservices
• writing and reviewing technical documentation
• troubleshooting and resolving production applications

These will be your primary/secondary responsibilities:  

• Architecting, leading, developing, modifying, and coding a new SaaS product ● Leverage your collaborative leadership skills to identify and drive product, technical, and squad goals and outcomes
• Responsible for delivery of the sprint’s commitments by owning the quality and performance of the squad
• Creating, promoting, and ensuring compliance of the engineering standards and processes ● Be a technical partner to the Product Owner and Project Manager
• Triage and resolve Customer-escalated issues
• Determine optimal resourcing path for completing sprint commitments; assign stories to squad members with a focus on optimizing work
• Provide insight and expertise to help identify opportunities for improvements to the platform and assist others in resolving their ideas.
• Take ownership of grooming and estimating architectural and design improvements