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.

Key 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.