Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Own and lead the design of large-scale, distributed, highly available, and secure backend systems that power core parts of the platform.
• Drive architectural decisions, establish long-term technical direction, and define standards across multiple teams and services.
• Develop strategies for system performance, reliability, scalability, and long-term evolution.
• Mentor and grow engineers at all levels, shaping engineering culture and uplifting technical excellence across the org.
• Take ownership of the full software development lifecycle requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations.
• Champion best practices by defining coding standards, leading complex code reviews, and driving engineering process improvements.
• Lead and deliver complex cross-functional initiatives in partnership with Product Managers, ML Engineers, Front-end Engineers, and QA Engineers.
• Research, evaluate, prototype, and introduce new technologies to solve complex business or technical challenges.
• Serve as a technical lead during incident response, ensuring rapid recovery, deep root cause analysis, and long-term fixes.
• Influence organisational technology decisions and contribute to strategic planning.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience designing and developing backend systems at scale.
• Expertise in Java and Spring (or equivalent frameworks), with a solid understanding of architecture and design patterns.
• Deep knowledge of both SQL databases, including schema design, tuning, and scaling data systems.
• Strong experience with distributed systems, caching, messaging, event-driven architectures, concurrency, and search technologies.
• Solid understanding of cloud architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices.
• Ability to define architectural direction, balance trade-offs, and make high-impact technical decisions.
• Proven experience leading large, complex projects end-to-end across multiple teams.
• Excellent troubleshooting and performance optimisation skills, especially in critical production systems.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and influence senior engineers and shape engineering culture.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
• Experience with fintech/payment systems, payment rails, ledger-like architectures, or regulated transaction flows is a plus.
• Experience working with or architecting NET-based services is a plus.

Skills

Java, SQL, Spring, architecture, backend, distributed, microservices