Technical Lead

Job Title: Technical Lead

Experience: 9+ years

Location: Onsite

Industry: Media & Entertainment

About the Role

We are looking for a Tech Lead with deep expertise in modern application development and technologies to provide technical leadership and guidance to our engineering team. This role is primarily focused on technical direction, mentorship, and hands-on contributions. You will drive design and architecture decisions across multiple systems and teams, ensure engineering best practices, and work across multiple groups to deliver scalable, reliable and secure solutions.

As a Tech Lead, you will act as the technical point of accountability for your team, balancing hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities. You will play a key role in adopting emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development tools, to enhance team productivity and maintain modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and guide the technical direction of multiple systems and services.
• Design and build client-facing APIs that are scalable, reliable, and secure, ensuring services and APIs comply with security best practices in collaboration with the security team.
• Design and build internal APIs that are consumed by frontend applications and services
• Own design and architecture for assigned modules, escalating major architectural decisions when needed
• Stay hands-on in coding, particularly for common libraries, proof-of-concepts, and complex features
• Write and review clean, maintainable, and performant code across multiple languages
• Ensure engineering best practices are followed for CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and containerization
• Collaborate with Product Managers to ensure requirements are clearly captured and prioritized for Engineering and QA
• Collaborate with Engineers to ensure technical solutions meet product requirements and align with business needs
• Guide the team in Agile practices, ensuring effective sprint planning, backlog refinement, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure the scrum team maintains strong quality by verifying sufficient unit and integration test coverage
• Oversee database design and optimization for relational and non-relational databases.
• Mentor both junior and senior engineers through code reviews, technical coaching, and knowledge sharing
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and AI-assisted development tools, introducing best practices to keep engineering approaches current, efficient, and future-ready.
• Support the hiring process by participating in interviews and evaluations
• Champion observability and monitoring best practices to ensure high availability and performance of systems

Required Skills & Experience

• 9+ years of professional experience in software engineering
• Strong hands-on expertise in multiple programming languages, architectures
• Proven experience designing and building scalable client-facing APIs as well as internal APIs to support frontend integration
• Solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals, design patterns, and best practices
• Deep knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, with the ability to design and optimize data models.
• Proven experience with AWS (preferred) or other cloud platforms and building distributed, scalable systems
• Strong understanding of system design principles, including scalability, performance optimization, and high availability.
• Proficient in modern distributed system patterns such as microservices and event-driven messaging.
• Strong experience with modern development workflows, including CI/CD pipelines, git, and containerization/orchestration platforms.
• Proven experience guiding Agile practices at the team level, ensuring effective sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and continuous improvement.
• Experience incorporating security and compliance best practices into system and API design.
• Proficiency in leveraging and evaluating AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance productivity.
• Experience implementing observability practices, including monitoring, logging, and alerting, to ensure system reliability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with .NET Core and its ecosystem is a plus.
• Prior experience in the media & entertainment industry
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)