Tech Lead

Title : Tech Lead

Location : Onsite at Photon locations (Chicago Dallas and New York).

The Role

Digital API team is looking for a hands-on Tech Lead with deep expertise to design and deliver domain-driven microservices for customer-facing digital experiences. Youll own greenfield builds from zero-to-production lead engineers by example (coding 70% of the time) and drive cross-team triage while keeping leadership proactively informed.

What Youll Do

• Design & build domain-driven event-aware microservices in (Express / Fastify / NestJS) with clean testable code.
• Architect greenfield systems : service boundaries data models REST APIs event streams CI / CD observability and runtime topology.
• Set API standards : versioning OpenAPI / Swagger pagination error contracts resiliency patterns (timeouts retries circuit breakers).
• Own production readiness : SLOs dashboards alerting runbooks; lead incident triage / bridge calls and drive blameless RCAs.
• Collaborate across teams (web mobile data security ops) to unblock work sequence dependencies and land integrated releases.
• Communicate proactively with leadership : crisp status risk / mitigation dependencies and measurable outcomes.
• Raise the bar : code reviews engineering best practices mentoring pair programming tech talks and documentation.
• Think two steps ahead : anticipate edge cases scaling operability and cost; recommend pragmatic sequencing and trade-offs.

Tech Stack Youll Work With

What Youll Bring

Nice to Have

Key Skills

Administrative Skills,Facilities Management,Biotechnology,Creative Production,Design And Estimation,Architecture

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1