Tech Lead Engineer

What You'll Do:

• Provide technical leadership for complex, high-impact initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with product and business objectives.
• Lead system and component-level architecture design in partnership with engineers and architects.
• Own end-to-end technical execution for key projects, from design through delivery, proactively managing risks and dependencies.
• Translate high-level designs into well-scoped tasks, estimates, and implementation plans.
• Design, implement, and evolve cloud-native architectures using modern patterns (microservices, event-driven systems, API-first design), technologies and tools.
• Set and enforce high engineering standards through code reviews, CI/CD, testing, TDD, observability, and DevOps practices.
• Build, prioritize, and manage technical debt and drive performance, scalability, and reliability improvements using data-driven insights.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering strong engineering judgment, collaboration, ownership, continuous learning and skill development.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, UX, QA, Security, and Infrastructure teams to deliver solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Clearly communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support alignment between product priorities and technical execution, ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery.
• Remain deeply hands-on, contributing with high-quality, production-ready code for critical components and complex problem areas.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, applying strong diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt modern technologies and tools that improve system reliability and team effectiveness.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support departmental and company objectives.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related STEM field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of professional software development experience building complex, scalable business applications.
• Expert-level proficiency in the Microsoft stack, including C# / .NET Core and Angular.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure cloud services, including Durable Functions, App Services, Event Hubs, API Management, Azure AD, Key Vault, Blob Storage, AKS, and Service Fabric.
• Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems, microservices, and RESTful APIs (including ODATA).
• Deep experience with CI/CD pipelines (YAML), Git, Azure DevOps or GitHub, and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong database experience with SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Cosmos DB, including performance tuning and scalability.
• Vast experience with automated testing frameworks, TDD, and quality-driven development practices.
• Excellent familiarity with a variety of automation concepts – unit, integration, end-to-end testing, as well as enforcement of testing best practices for full stack applications.
• Familiarity with ERP, financial, or mission-critical SaaS platforms is a strong plus.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a pragmatic, data-driven approach.
• Strong communication and influence skills, with the ability to lead through expertise rather than authority.
• A continuous improvement mindset with a demonstrated commitment to engineering excellence and professional growth.
• Ability to travel up to <10% as business needs require.
• Role requires the following physical capacity: Sedentary: primarily desk/computer work.
• Must be legally authorized to work in United States; Elite does not provide employment sponsorship for this position.