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#136105 - Technical Lead - Full-Stack Production Systems
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TLDR
Own production troubleshooting and deployments across Java, Python, React, Kafka, GraphQL, and interconnected platform systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze, triage, and resolve production issues affecting live platform activity.
- Debug issues across interconnected backend, frontend, data, and integration systems.
- Partner with client-facing and go-to-market teams to prioritize and address support requests.
- Drive timely issue resolution against established service-level expectations.
- Monitor production systems and respond quickly to alerts and performance degradation.
- Support architecture changes and system integrations that affect platform behavior.
- Maintain application logic as dependencies and upstream systems change.
- Independently own code changes from implementation through merge, deployment, and production validation.
- Lead, shepherd, onboard, and coordinate other engineers while remaining hands-on with delivery.
- Manage ambiguity and prioritize work strategically across concurrent projects.
Must-Have Skills
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on Java and Spring Boot experience as a primary backend stack.
- Hands-on Django and Python experience as a secondary backend stack.
- Production frontend-development experience with React.
- Hands-on Kafka experience.
- Hands-on GraphQL experience.
- Strong experience with SQL or MongoDB.
- Build and deployment experience, including personally merging and deploying production code.
- Experience with at least one of Dagster, Data Lakes, or Amazon Athena.
- Demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly and own work across multiple concurrent projects.
- High ownership, initiative, and autonomy without requiring hand-holding.
- Technical leadership experience that includes leading, shepherding, and onboarding engineers.
- Demonstrated experience overseeing or coordinating the work of others.
- Clear and concise communication.
- Ability to manage ambiguity and make sound prioritization decisions.
- Strategic thinking and strong production problem-solving skills.
- Ability to use data and system signals to troubleshoot production issues.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Product-management experience partnering with go-to-market teams and engineers on prioritization.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf.
Required Tools & Platforms
- Java and Spring Boot
- Django and Python
- React
- Kafka
- GraphQL
- SQL or MongoDB
- Build and deployment tooling
- At least one of:
- Dagster
- Data Lakes
- Amazon Athena
Location, Time & Engagement
- Candidates must be based in an eligible LATAM location.
- Full US Central Time coverage is required.
- Contract engagement at 40 hours per week.
Benefits
Remote-Friendly
Fully remote role
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Technical Lead
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