Tech Lead, Foundations

Role overview Lead the technical direction of a shared-services team supporting a talent platform. The work combines hands-on software development with architecture decisions, engineering guidance, and collaboration across product and domain teams. The role focuses on reliable foundations that help other teams deliver product work efficiently.

Responsibilities - Guide shared services for identity, authentication, access control, and notifications. - Design partner data integrations using APIs, events, webhooks, or file exchanges, with clear contracts and observability. - Build reusable services, libraries, and patterns, and document them so other teams can adopt them. - Contribute code across front end and back end, review changes, and set standards for design, quality, and security. - Coordinate with product, security, and compliance partners on identity, consent, and data handling needs. - Plan milestones, balance platform investments with feature requests, and mentor engineers.

Requirements - Strong experience in system design and API design, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to nontechnical partners. - Ability to lead technical direction while contributing code and supporting engineers through review and mentorship. - Experience with shared platform services, integrations, and operational ownership is relevant to the stated scope. - Ability to work across product and engineering teams to define requirements, sequence work, and drive adoption. - The role is remote for candidates in Eastern or Central time zones; some travel is required.

Nice to have - Experience with HR systems or applicant tracking integrations, education data standards, or privacy and security frameworks such as SOC 2, FERPA, or GLBA. - Prior experience mentoring engineers or moving toward engineering management.

Benefits and work setup The listing describes a player-coach role with no direct reports initially and potential to manage as the team grows. Benefits include cash and equity compensation, health, dental and vision coverage, student loan repayment, a 401(k) match, and flexible paid time off.