Description :
Vena Solutions is seeking a Technical Lead - Staff Software Developer who will act as an engineering team leader driving high-quality delivery of product improvements, while staying hands-on and contributing to the codebase for our cloud-native SaaS product.
This role is a match for you if you are looking to combine your technical and leadership skills to enable a team of developers and work with them to deliver robust, performant and maintainable software!
How You'll Make An Impact :
- Leads day-to-day engineering team operations, ensuring the team is delivering both impactful product improvements as well as improving the quality of the codebase in a sustainable manner
- Acts as the "architect within the team", in collaboration with Software Architects.
- Leads system design for major changes/improvements in alignment with overall software architecture strategy
- Solves the team's toughest technical challenges, enables others to help solve them when possible
- Works with Product Managers to ensure plans/roadmaps are achievable, deliveries are met, and team resource gaps are understood and addressed
- Reviews team epics and projects critically, ensure theyre appropriately broken down and prioritised, and well-understood by the team
- Mentors, coaches, and teaches others in coding best practices in an open and empathetic way, through pairing, code reviews, etc.
- Ensures long-term codebase health and ensure that tech debt issues are properly prioritized in quarterly and Sprint Planning
- Advocates for and executes development initiatives, best practices and coding standards
- May act as a Guild/Chapter Lead to drive broadly impactful functional improvements across the engineering department
We'd Love to See :
- 7+ years of experience in software development
- 1+ year of experience leading a software development team as a Tech Lead (or playing the role informally)
- Foundational understanding of algorithms and computational complexity
- Experience developing in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or equivalent cloud environments
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud-native application development (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Proficiency in using cloud services such as compute (EC2, Azure VM), storage (S3, Blob), databases, and serverless functions (Lambda, Azure Functions).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AKS).
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines in cloud environments (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline).
- Understanding of cloud security best practices, IAM roles, policies, and access controls.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Application Insights).
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates).