Technical Lead - Backend

Title: Tech Lead (Backend) - Growth
Type;Hybrid 

Location: Jersey City, Las Vegas United States

Job Description:

As a Tech Lead, you will manage a team of engineers, ensuring smooth delivery within a Scrum framework. You will mentor team members, enforce best practices, be responsible for your team's quality output, and actively contribute to improving development processes. You will also write code and pick up user stories to keep your team on track. This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, ownership of technical excellence, and the ability to drive high-quality deliverables.

This role will be hybrid, in the Jersey City office 3 times per week.

What You Will Do:

• Build, test, and maintain robust backend systems using Scala.
• Advocate for and oversee the delivery of high-quality software, which is regularly and safely changed thanks to high unit test coverage and reliable end to end automation coverage.
• Perform quality control by ensuring effective code reviews and addressing technical debt alongside product development.
• Collaborate with Solutions Architects to create and review architectural documentation.
• Ensure adherence to Agile/Scrum best practices throughout delivery in partnership with the Delivery Lead.
• Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to develop features that enhance user experience and system capabilities.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that meets performance requirements.
• Support developers through refinement, breaking down requirements into technical tasks, user story creation, and providing estimations. Push back on unrealistic timelines as needed.
• Support your team by fielding external requests, addressing blocking issues and getting ahead of upcoming work.
• Act as the direct manager of a team of engineers. Conduct regular 1:1s, provide mentorship, and deliver constructive feedback to foster team growth.
• Support hiring and people management initiatives to maintain a high-performing team.

What You Will Need:

• 5+ years of progressive experience as a software engineer, preferably within high-growth or real-time systems like betting or transactional platforms.
• Proven ability to mentor, guide, and develop engineers with 1+ year experience managing software engineers preferred.
• Extensive engineering experience in:
• Scala and related frameworks
• Building and maintaining APIs for high-throughput, real-time applications.
• Utilizing AWS for cloud-native architectures.
• Kafka and other NRT messaging platforms.
• OLTP systems critical to real-time transaction processing.
• Relational and non-relational databases like Cassandra, Redis, Postgresql
• Observability tools like Splunk and NewRelic
• Experience designing software architecture for scalable, distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in Agile product delivery and Scrum methodologies.
• Demonstrated bias toward action and ownership over key initiatives with a delivery-focused mindset.

The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $200,000 USD, which is dependent on a several factors including relevant experience, geography, business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k)-matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid Flexible Time Off and paid company holidays.