Tech Lead

📋 Description

• • Are you a seasoned software engineer with a passion for architecting robust, scalable, and data-intensive platforms? Scale Army Careers is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Tech Lead to join our dynamic, fully remote team. This pivotal role is designed for individuals based in LATAM, Africa, and Eastern Europe who are eager to make a significant impact on a technology-driven company building complex systems that power user workflows, e-commerce transactions, subscription management, and intricate third-party integrations. As our client's business expands, maintaining strong architectural foundations and coherent data models is paramount. This position offers a unique opportunity to balance the demands of rapid development with the critical need for reliability and long-term system health.
• • As the Tech Lead, you will be a hands-on technical leader, deeply involved in owning and evolving the complex data models and overall system architecture. Your expertise will be instrumental in designing and refining the domain model that underpins essential business functions such as user registrations, high-volume e-commerce transactions, subscription management, and seamless integrations with external services. You will not only architect solutions but also actively mentor and guide other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and best practices.
• • **Key Responsibilities include:**
• • **Data Modeling & Architecture Design:** You will be responsible for designing new tables, defining intricate relationships, and establishing robust constraints for emerging domains. A significant part of your role will involve evolving existing schemas to accommodate growth and new features without compromising the integrity of critical workflows. You will ensure that all data models are meticulously documented, maintain a high degree of consistency, and are strategically aligned with overarching business objectives. Pragmatic architectural decisions that skillfully balance the need for rapid development (speed), data integrity and system stability (safety), the capacity to handle increasing loads (scalability), and the long-term viability of the system (maintainability) will be a hallmark of your work.
• • **End-to-End Feature Delivery:** You will take ownership of feature delivery across the entire stack, from backend logic to frontend implementation, ensuring a seamless and intuitive user experience. This includes managing complex, multi-step workflows such as user registrations, recurring subscription renewals, intricate e-commerce transactions, and secure payment gateway integrations. A critical aspect of your role will be maintaining the operational resilience of background jobs that support these mission-critical tasks, ensuring they run reliably and efficiently.
• • **Mentorship & Technical Leadership:** You will play a crucial role in mentoring mid-level engineers, providing them with the guidance and support needed to excel. You will also actively guide junior developers, fostering their growth and helping them build technical excellence across the team. Leading code reviews will be a key responsibility, with a strong emphasis on data modeling best practices, architectural soundness, and the principles of clean, maintainable code. You will be instrumental in setting patterns and standards for modules, services, and models, ensuring they are aligned with current and future business goals.
• • **Collaboration & Communication:** You will work directly with product teams and company founders, translating complex business requirements into clear, actionable technical designs. You will have the ability to break down large, complex work into coherent, manageable projects, ensuring alignment across both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Effectively communicating technical trade-offs, potential risks, and proposed solutions will be essential for driving informed decision-making and enhancing overall system quality.
• • **Production Readiness:** Designing safe, thoroughly tested, and reversible database migrations will be a core responsibility to ensure smooth deployments and minimize downtime. You will be focused on ensuring the scalability and reliability of our production systems, anticipating future demands and implementing proactive measures. Taking ownership of background jobs, optimizing queue usage, and implementing robust observability through monitoring tools like Grafana will be critical for maintaining system health and performance.
• • Success in this role will be defined by the creation of scalable and maintainable data models that can effortlessly support high-volume transactions. It will also be measured by the reliable delivery of robust backend and frontend features at scale, and by the demonstrable impact of your technical mentorship, resulting in a high-performing and technically proficient engineering team. Ultimately, success means achieving clear alignment between evolving business needs and a well-architected, long-term system strategy.
• • This is an exceptional opportunity to take direct ownership of core system architecture and domain modeling within a rapidly growing and increasingly complex platform. As a Senior Engineer and Tech Lead, you will have a profound impact on the company's technical direction, the scalability of its systems, and the establishment of high engineering standards. You will collaborate closely with product leaders and mentor a talented team of developers as the platform continues its exciting evolution.