Product Tech Lead
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As a Product Tech Lead, you’ll lead a fast-paced engineering team responsible for building and evolving the technology that powers our mission of helping people invest and become smarter, happier, and richer. This role combines hands-on technical leadership, people management, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, high-quality products and platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor developers through regular 1:1s, coaching, technical guidance, and career development support.
- Drive technical architecture and engineering decisions across products and platforms, balancing scalability, performance, maintainability, and business goals.
- Lead technical discussions, planning sessions, and solution design reviews across engineering and cross-functional teams.
- Partner closely with product, design, leadership, and stakeholders to align technical strategy with roadmap priorities and long-term business objectives.
- Develop and maintain modern web applications.
- Establish and promote engineering best practices, focusing on code quality, system reliability, observability, performance, and sustainable development practices.
- Facilitate technical feedback through code reviews, pair programming, architecture reviews, and collaborative problem-solving.
- Coordinate and communicate effectively with stakeholders, providing visibility into technical initiatives, risks, trade-offs, and delivery timelines.
- Support delivery planning, prioritization, and execution while helping teams navigate ambiguity and evolving requirements.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and automation to improve engineering efficiency and developer experience.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience building highly performant and scalable web applications.
- Previous experience leading engineering teams or serving in a technical leadership capacity.
- Strong proficiency in React, Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and REST APIs.
- Experience with Django and Python development.
- Experience designing scalable system architectures and making long-term technical decisions.
- Experience working closely with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders.
- Experience with AWS and cloud-native application development.
- Experience with sophisticated application state management, such as Apollo Client or Redux.
- Experience with Docker, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development workflows.
- A proven track record leading high-performing engineering teams and delivering complex technical initiatives.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Familiarity with AI-driven development workflows, automation, and developer productivity tooling.
- Strong understanding of security, reliability, and performance best practices in modern web development.
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