Tech Lead Full Stack Java Developer

The Tech Lead at ARCOS is a technical leader who collaborates as part of agile development team, acting as both a technical authority and a team mentor. This position involves leading a team of software engineers in designing and implementing high-quality software solutions. The Tech Lead must have an in-depth understanding of software architecture and demonstrate a commitment to enhancing the security, scalability, readability, and testability of our codebase. We seek someone who combines a relentless drive and passion for their work with an exceptional ability to work collaboratively. At ARCOS, we highly value determination, proactive approaches, effective teamwork, and technical expertise. 

ARCOS leverages Java/Spring Boot, AWS (Lambda, ECS, Fargate), Terraform,   TypeScript (JavaScript), React and React Native, and Postgres. ARCOS teams focus on creating quality code with tests (both e2e automated and unit) in a modern CI/CD environment.

What you'll do:

• Technical Vision and Strategy: Lead and define the technical vision for projects, ensuring alignment with ARCOS’s strategic goals. Establish and oversee the application of engineering best practices, design patterns, and code quality standards. Address complex technical challenges and deliver innovative solutions with long-term impact considerations. 

• Leadership and Mentorship: Provide leadership and direction to the engineering team. Mentor and guide team members, fostering their technical and professional development. Promote a culture of learning and excellence within the team. 

• Execution & Delivery: Operate within an Agile Scrum framework, actively participating in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives. Take full ownership of assigned tasks and projects, ensuring timely delivery with a commitment to quality. Proactively identify technical challenges and work with the team to devise effective solutions. 

• Innovation and Improvement: Lead efforts to improve engineering best practice, in collaboration with other tech leads and engineering managers. Stay abreast of emerging technologies and trends, advocating for the adoption of new technologies, where beneficial. Collaborate with both technical and non-technical team members to ensure effective project execution. 

• Effective Communication: Act as a liaison between the product team, architecture, UI/UX engineers, and other stakeholders. Clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring alignment of technical solutions with business objectives. 

• Production Support Leadership: Manage escalated production issues and guide the team in rapid diagnosis and resolution. Contribute to continuous process improvements based on production experiences. 

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or a related field (or equivalent work experience). 

• 7-10 years of experience in full-stack enterprise software development (UI, back end, API, database). 

• Expertise in software engineering design principles, architectural patterns, and leading complex and scalable system implementations. 

• Strong leadership qualities with a proven ability to mentor and guide a team through technical challenges and solution development. 

• Effective communication skills, able to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences. 

• Extensive experience in Agile development, continuous integration, and delivery practices. 

• Creation of proactive monitoring systems that identify potential issues based on early symptoms rather than waiting for outages. 

• Experience in implementing a variety of application architectures, particularly in cloud-based, multi-tenant, high-volume, and high-availability contexts. 

• History of successful project leadership across Web and Mobile platforms. 

• Exceptional interpersonal and collaborative skills, with an emphasis on fostering teamwork and knowledge sharing. 

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Paternity, Maternity)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Work From Home