#119768 - Tech Lead, Java/Spring Boot & React Production Platform

Responsibilities

• Analyze, triage, and resolve production issues related to live hiring events.
• Debug issues across backend, frontend, data, and integration layers.
• Work closely with client-facing support and go-to-market teams to understand, prioritize, and resolve support tickets.
• Respond quickly to production alerts, system degradation, or performance issues.
• Ensure issues are resolved in a timely manner to meet established SLAs.
• Support architecture changes and system integrations that impact event-management workflows.
• Maintain and update event logic as dependencies, integrations, and systems change.
• Own code changes from investigation through merge and deployment.
• Provide technical leadership, onboarding support, and shepherding for other engineers.
• Coordinate technical work across multiple projects and help the team prioritize effectively.
• Use data to troubleshoot production issues and guide resolution.
• Must-Have Skills
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot experience, especially for backend services.
• Django and Python experience for backend application development.
• React experience for frontend application development.
• Kafka experience for backend or event-driven systems.
• GraphQL experience.
• Experience with SQL or MongoDB.
• Build and deployment experience.
• Experience troubleshooting live production systems.
• Experience handling support tickets, incident triage, or SLA-driven production issues.
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and operate with a high level of ownership.
• Ability to ramp quickly and assume ownership across multiple projects.
• Technical leadership experience.
• Experience overseeing, coordinating, shepherding, or onboarding other engineers.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and make sound prioritization decisions.
• Clear and concise communication skills.
• Strategic thinking and strong prioritization skills.
• Ability to use data to troubleshoot production issues.
• Experience with at least one of the following: Dagster, Data Lakes, or Amazon Athena.
• Nice-to-Have Skills
• Product management experience or experience working 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
• Spring Boot
• Django
• Python
• React
• Kafka
• GraphQL
• SQL
• MongoDB
• Dagster, Data Lakes, or Amazon Athena
• Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf preferred
• Build and deployment tools or workflows
• Production monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting workflows
• Location, Time & Engagement
• Remote contractor role.
• Candidates must be located in LATAM.
• Must have meaningful overlap with U.S. business hours.
• 40 hours per week.
• Contract engagement through March 31, 2027.

Benefits

Additional Information

We are seeking a Tech Lead to support a live, production event-management platform used for high-volume hiring events. This role is focused on diagnosing and resolving production issues, supporting active events, coordinating across engineering and client-facing teams, and helping lead a group of engineers through onboarding, ownership, and delivery. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. The right candidate will be a senior-level engineer who can ramp quickly, work independently, manage ambiguity, take ownership of production issues, and help guide other engineers without requiring close direction. Enterprise experience strongly preferred.

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