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.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.
- 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.
- Must have meaningful overlap with U.S. business hours.
- 40 hours per week.
- Contract engagement through March 31, ****.

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