Tech Lead, Engineering

Summary

Join Deel, a rapidly growing SaaS company revolutionizing global talent connections, as a Tech Lead and contribute to building the infrastructure for the future of work. You will be responsible for technical decisions, ensuring efficient team work and alignment with company strategies. As a high-output individual contributor with strong leadership skills, you will oversee projects, identify risks, collaborate with design and product teams, and ensure alignment with product goals and timelines. You will also provide software development expertise to team members through pair programming and code reviews.

Requirements

• Possess a passion for technology and developing cutting-edge, scalable, and robust software systems
• You have a true passion for developing user experiences that are nothing short of amazing
• Design and architect software for distributed systems with high-performance, scalability, and availability demands
• Push boundaries through rapid prototyping and iterative development, always driving innovation
• You are based between GMT-GMT+3 Max
• You are a high-output individual contributor with strong leadership and organizational abilities
• Outstandingly accountable and trustworthy, you are able to build lasting relationships with teams
• Excellent communication (written and spoken English) and interpersonal skills
• 8+ years of experience with Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, React, and TypeScript
• Hands-on with messaging systems like NATS and RabbitMQ
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs (e.g., payment gateways, CRMs, banking APIs)
• At least 2 years of Tech Lead/Systems Architect experience, ideally in a fintech/trading platform/banking industry
• Deep understanding of database usage and principles of performance
• Understanding of the appropriate usage of documentation and diagramming related to software engineering, including, but not limited to: Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), State Diagrams, Flowcharts, Sequence Diagrams, Class Diagrams, etc
• Familiarity with Kubernetes (k8s) as well as CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

• Oversee all projects undertaken by the team, determining technical requirements and communicating them to the team
• Identify risks and come up with contingency plans asap
• Collaborate closely with design and product teams to create extraordinary product experiences
• Work closely with the Team Lead and Product Manager to ensure that the team’s work is aligned with product goals and delivery timelines
• Demonstrate excellence in product-led software development
• Develop software architecture required to implement the team’s features, meet their objectives and key results (OKRs)
• Provide software development expertise to team members via pair programming and code review

Preferred Qualifications

Have experience with SaaS products running 24/7 on a major cloud vendor

Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access