Technical Team Lead

Roles and responsibilities

You will interact with the product managers to understand their needs, propose and design solutions, and implement them. You will work closely with the Backend team to ensure that work is delivered smoothly together with other teams such as front end and data.

• Working with your team to enable the delivery of efficient, tested, and well-written features
• Being involved and contributing to team-level technical discussions
• Software design and code reviews
• Providing technical advice, anticipating technical issues, communicating these clearly to relevant stakeholders, and making architectural /design decisions to avoid or resolve them
• Caring about the quality of the codebase and continually looking for ways to improve it
• Apply principles of clean architecture ‘Hexagonal Architecture’ to design and develop software solutions.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks early and optimise the software for better performance.
• Maintain and manage a comprehensive Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to track software components and dependencies.
• Monitor and address security vulnerabilities (CVEs) in the codebase promptly.
• Demonstrating the features implemented to get feedback and suggestions
• Coaching, mentoring, knowledge sharing
• Understanding customer needs, contributing ideas, and resolving issues
• Strong proficiency in SQL and relational database modelling, including expertise in designing effective entity-relationship schemas and using migration tools like Liquibase
• Analysing requirements, understanding how they fit into the big picture, designing components/services/APIs, implementing and delivering quality, working software
• Demonstrating the features implemented to get feedback and suggestions
• Leading team-level technical discussions

Desired candidate profile

• Knowledge of key Graph database concepts
• Knowledge of Cypher and Neo4j (Neo4j Certification is a big plus)
• Proficiency in logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, Grafana) is required for effective system analysis and performance monitoring
• Integrating services with message brokers and event streaming platforms, like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Understanding of service orchestrators like Kubernetes
• Knowledge of full stack application architectures, from design and development until production readiness, including DevOps best practices.
• K6 performance testing
• SBOMs and Cyclone DX
• Demonstrated ownership and accountability, with a commitment to delivering results
• Proficient in decomposing complex tasks into manageable parts for efficient resolution
• Customer and product success-oriented mindset
• Proactive, innovative thinker, constantly seeking improvement opportunities
• Resilient 'Can-do' attitude, agile in problem-solving
• Good time management, adaptability to changing priorities, and maintaining high availability