#119768 - Tech Lead, Java/Spring Boot & React Production Platform

Description

Summary: Seeking a Tech Lead to support a live, production event-management platform, focusing on issue resolution, event support, team coordination, and technical leadership. Highlights: 1. Hands-on technical leadership role in production event management. 2. Opportunity to guide and onboard engineers. 3. Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across multiple layers. **Job Description** 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. **Qualifications** **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. **Additional Information** **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\.