Tech Lead, Engineering

Summary

Join Deel as an Engineering Tech Lead and assume responsibility for key technical decisions, ensuring team efficiency and alignment with company-wide strategies. Oversee team projects, define technical requirements, and communicate them effectively. Proactively identify and mitigate risks, collaborating closely with design and product teams for exceptional product experiences. Work in tandem with the Team Lead and Product Manager to maintain alignment with product goals and timelines. Demonstrate expertise in product-led software development, architecting software solutions to meet team objectives, and mentor team members through pair programming and code reviews. Deel offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment at the forefront of the global work revolution.

Requirements

• Expertise in Backend Development: Strong proficiency in Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript best practices, along with experience in at least one other server-side language
• Database Mastery: You're a SQL guru, particularly with PostgreSQL, handling query optimization, data migrations, and database modeling
• Solid Grasp of OOP and Design Patterns: Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns, with experience in building and extending classes
• Scalability Focus: Experience in designing systems for scalability, ensuring they manage rapid growth and increasing demands efficiently
• High-Volume Performance: Proven expertise in optimizing systems for large transaction volumes, handling concurrency, idempotency, and performance under load
• API Development: Skilled in building APIs, including input validation, JWT tokens, and ensuring security & scalability through queue-based systems
• AWS or similar cloud experience
• Kubernetes, Helm and Docker knowledge
• Strong system design and problem solving skills, we often deal with the “unknown”
• Strong communication skills
• You are hands-on troubleshooter
• You are ready for challenges
• You bring 10+ years of progressive engineering experience with at least 2 years working on complex projects as an individual contributor and/or “Principle” level Engineer
• You possess a strong product mindset with the ability to apply it to release management instances, combining Engineering expertise with DevOps fundamentals
• You thrive in a highly collaborative cross-functional environment, actively partnering with Product, Marketing, and Data teams. You're a proactive communicator and strategic thinker, confident in challenging assumptions and contributing to the overall quality of our codebase
• You maintain a strong technical acumen, capable of providing architectural guidance, unblocking complex engineering challenges, and delivering constructive, high-quality feedback in code reviews
• You're genuinely energized by data-driven experimentation (A/B testing, multivariate testing) and are adept at navigating and thriving in fast-paced, iterative environments where priorities can evolve rapidly
• You are biased for action, possessing well-reasoned opinions that drive clarity and build momentum; you naturally identify opportunities and champion solutions
• You are obsessed with business and user outcomes, moving beyond feature delivery to relentlessly focus on measurable impact and sustainable growth. You consistently connect engineering efforts to tangible value

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
• 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

• Proactively contributed to “release management” processes and implementing changes that drive efficiency & scalability
• Helped set standards for development best practices - we want to keep our codebase high quality and clean as we scale through a high deployment environment

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