Why this role exists:
The Tech Lead is a senior engineering role responsible for driving technical excellence within a specific product or platform stream. This role combines hands-on development with architectural leadership, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions. The Tech Lead partners closely with Head of stream, Product Managers, and Team Leads to deliver business value while maintaining strong technical standards.
What you'll drive:
Technical Architecture and System Design
Own high-level system design and architecture decisions for features, services, and platform components.
Perform technical evaluation of tasks, initiatives, and projects, including feasibility and trade-offs.
Collaborate with Team Leads and other Tech Lead on technical roadmap alignment.
Support incident resolution and root cause analysis for complex production issues.
Hands-on Development and Quality Standards
Contribute as an Individual Contributor (IC) to critical or complex parts of the system.
Drive technical excellence within the assigned stream, ensuring alignment with company-wide engineering standards.
Ensure code quality, reusability, scalability, and extensibility across owned services\/components.
Review and guide implementation approaches to ensure best engineering practices.
Ensure adherence to Definition of Done (DoD) and engineering standards.
Delivery and Technical Leadership
Provide high-level effort estimations and support planning activities.
Act as a technical authority in at least one programming language or technology stack.
Balance technical quality vs delivery speed.
Mentorship and Engineering Culture
Mentor engineers and contribute to their professional development and technical growth.
Assist Team Leads in defining and executing Personal Development Plans (PDPs).
Promote knowledge sharing, documentation, and engineering culture improvements.
What makes you a GR8 fit:
Must-have
7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including prior experience in a senior or lead engineering role.
Proven experience in Scala and Java.
Experience designing and building scalable distributed systems in product-based or B2B environments.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
Strong system design, architectural thinking, and deep understanding of software engineering best practices.
Strong problem-solving, analytical skills, and effective technical communication across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
Ownership, accountability, and ability to work in cross-functional environments.
Upper-Intermediate (B2+) level of English and Ukrainian or Russian.
Nice-to-have
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