Software Engineering Tech Lead

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The Software Engineering Tech Lead is responsible for leading the design, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions that align with business objectives and technical standards.

This role combines hands-on coding expertise with leadership responsibilities, guiding a team of engineers through the entire software development lifecycle.

The Tech Lead ensures best practices in architecture, code quality, and performance, while fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team.

Additionally, this role serves as a key liaison between engineering, product management, and other stakeholders to align technical solutions with strategic goals.

You will oversee the development and implementation of full-stack solutions, ensuring the highest standards of software quality, performance, and reliability.

You will lead a team of skilled engineers, guiding them through the complete software development lifecycle, from design and coding to deployment and maintenance.

Your expertise in software engineering, CI/CD, automation, SRE practices, data engineering, and cloud engineering will be crucial in driving our projects to success.

Key Accountabilities/Deliverables:


* Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering collaboration and innovation.


* Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance full-stack applications.


* Implement DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring to ensure system reliability and performance.


* Apply SRE practices to ensure system reliability and availability.


* Collaborate with data engineering teams on data pipelines and storage solutions.


* Work with cloud engineering teams for application deployment and management.


* Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback and ensure best practices.


* Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues to minimize downtime and optimize performance.


* Stay current with industry trends and continuously improve development processes.


* Architect and deliver scalable, secure software solutions for insurance products and customer portals.


* Drive modernization initiatives, including migrating from legacy platforms to cloud-native architectures.


* Ensure systems comply with industry regulations and support audit readiness.


* Mentor engineers, promote best practices, and foster a high-performance culture.


* Partner with business and product teams to translate needs into technical solutions.

Technical Knowledge and Understanding:


* Proficient in Azure, with extensive experience deploying scalable insurance applications and integrating third-party APIs and services.


* Knowledgeable in data privacy, encryption, and secure coding practices for insurance systems.


* Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, CI/CD, containerization (Azure Container apps), and infrastructure as code (Terraform).


* Experienced with Docker, Kubernetes, mi...