Description

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

·      Serve as the lead developer and technical authority for the initiative(s)

·      Design system architectures and define technical roadmaps

·      Decompose ambiguous problem spaces into clear, actionable technical plans

·      Define, document, and negotiate service and API contracts with partner teams

·      Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, resiliency, and maintainability

·      Identify technical dependencies, risks, sequencing, and trade-offs

Hands-On Engineering

·         Remain hands-on in development, particularly during implementation phases

·         Review code and enforce engineering best practices and quality standards

·         Support complex technical problem-solving across the stack

Collaboration & Planning

·         Work closely with product, partner teams, and stakeholders to shape scope and priorities

·         Help determine which initiative to start first based on technical readiness and risk

·         Inform decisions on future team composition and required skillsets

Team & Delivery Model

·         Work within a single cross-functional team supporting multiple initiatives (initially not in parallel)

·         Support a flexible staffing model with engineers rotating in or out based on phase and needs

·         Contribute to APIs that are primarily internal-facing, with some UI components potentially external-facing

·         Influence when and how additional engineers are added as scope and priorities become clearer

Core Technical Skills (Priority Order)

Required

·    NodeJS (backend) and Angular (frontend)

·         AWS experience, including services such as: ECS, Lambda, S3, Glue

·         DynamoDB 

Preferred / Learnable

·         Typescript

·         GraphQL 

·         Java

·         Experience with additional databases (to be determined)

Ideal Candidate Profile

·         Strong technical depth with a solution-oriented mindset

·         Proven experience providing technical leadership while remaining hands-on

·         Strong background in resilient system and cloud-native design

·         Ability to work effectively across: Backend services, Cloud infrastructure, Frontend/UI concerns

·         Comfortable operating in environments with high ambiguity and evolving requirements

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree