Technical Lead 21170-1

Job Description

Job Description

Apply now : Technical Lead, location is Hybrid (Burbank, CA). The start date is August 18, 2025 or two weeks from offer for this 1-year contract position with potential extension or conversion.

Job Title : Technical Lead

Location-Type : Hybrid Burbank, CA (Tues–Thurs onsite, Remote Monday / Friday)

Start Date Is : August 18, 2025 or two weeks from offer

Duration : 1 year (Contract, potential extension and conversion)

Compensation Range : $80.00 / hr – $95.00 / hr W2

Job Description :

Lead the design, development, and delivery of modular, scalable, AWS-native solutions, while mentoring engineering teams, driving DevOps best practices, and ensuring performance, reliability, and operational readiness.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities :

Architect & Evolve Solutions : Define and evolve architecture aligned to enterprise patterns, emphasizing modularity, composability, and scalability

Drive Engineering Excellence : Lead coding standards, code reviews, automated testing, CI / CD workflows, and infrastructure as code practices

Mentor and Empower Engineers : Act as a player-coach, mentoring team members in modern development and technical decision-making

Ensure Quality and Reliability : Enforce non-functional requirements, surface technical risks early, and embed monitoring and alerting into the SDLC

Partner Across Product and Platform : Collaborate with product owners, platform, and DevOps teams to align on shared services, environments, and deployment pipelines

Requirements : Must-Haves :

8 years in full-stack development (Java / Spring Boot and Angular / React / Vue)

Strong experience building distributed systems with AWS-native architectures (Lambda, API Gateway / AppSync, Step Functions, EventBridge, DynamoDB / RDS, S3)

8 years of CI / CD fluency with GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools

Hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform)

Proven ability to lead teams through DevOps transformations and maintain stability across environments

Nice-to-Haves :

Experience in proof-of-concept development and rapid prototyping

Background in performance tuning and fault tolerance for large-scale systems

Familiarity with microservices and event-driven architecture patterns