Job description:
Role: Tech Lead - Go + Python
Location: Mexico (Remote)
Duration: Long-Term Contract

Roles & Responsibilities
Job Description: Technical Lead Engineer
We are looking for a highly skilled Technical Lead Engineer with deep expertise in AWS cloud-native architecture and event-driven data platform engineering. This role leads the design and delivery of a complex AWS modernization program, migrating a legacy event pipeline to a modern architecture built on Amazon DynamoDB Streams, Amazon MSK (Kafka), and Amazon EKS. The Technical Lead will own end-to-end technical delivery — from architecture and pipeline design through integration testing, CI/CD setup, and documentation handoff.
Key Responsibilities:
• Architecture & Design: Drive end-to-end technical design and hands-on delivery of event-driven data pipelines on AWS; define service boundaries, integration patterns, and technical approach in close collaboration with the engineering team.
• Event Pipeline Engineering:



Build and configure Amazon DynamoDB Streams producers and AWS Lambda connector functions; implement Amazon MSK (Kafka) entity linkages and own topic schema validation.
• Backfill Pipeline Engineering: Build and lead execution of S3 and Lambda-orchestrated backfill pipelines; define per-stage validation criteria and rollback strategies.
• Integration Testing: Own end-to-end integration testing to validate data fidelity across distributed pipeline components; define acceptance criteria and sign off on fidelity targets.
• Container Migration: Lead migration of services from AWS Lambda to Amazon EKS; build and maintain Circle CI and Argo CD CI/CD pipelines for containerized deployments.
• Technical Leadership: Contribute to and review all engineering deliverables; define Definition of Done criteria per phase; champion code quality, test coverage, and security standards across the team.
• Documentation & Handoff: Produce deployment runbooks, pipeline documentation, architecture diagrams, and AW

📌 Tech Lead (México)
🏢 THOUGHT BYTE
📍 México