Technical Lead

About the role

Technical Lead position, responsible for breaking down technical requirements, performing system design, and leading engineering teams through complex technical challenges.

Key responsibilities

• Break down technical requirements into clear and actionable engineering tasks, including scope, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and technical considerations.
• Perform technical analysis and system design before development, including architecture, API flow, ERD, use case, and sequence diagrams.
• Design and review solutions involving microservices, databases, caching, asynchronous processing, transactions, concurrency, and data consistency.
• Perform task estimation, technical prioritization, and dependency management with the Engineering Manager.
• Assign and distribute technical tasks based on complexity, priority, and engineer capability.
• Conduct code reviews and technical reviews to ensure implementation follows the agreed design and engineering standards.
• Act as the escalation point for complex technical problems, performance issues, and production incidents.
• Perform performance analysis, troubleshooting, and optimization across applications and databases.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and problem-solving support to engineers.
• Collaborate with Engineering Manager, QA, DevOps, and Product teams to ensure smooth planning and delivery.

About you

• Minimum 6 years of experience as a Software Engineer, with experience as a Senior Engineer or Tech Lead.
• Strong understanding of backend engineering, system architecture, and system design.
• Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems, including scalability, reliability, idempotency, concurrency, and fault tolerance.
• Experience in application performance analysis and production troubleshooting.
• Strong knowledge of MySQL/PostgreSQL, database design, transactions, indexing, and query optimization.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes and containerized applications.
• Able to create and understand ERD, Use Case, and Sequence Diagrams.
• Strong technical leadership, task breakdown, mentoring, and decision-making skills.
• Experience in fintech, payment, or financial systems is a plus.
• Experience with Node.js/TypeScript is a plus.