Tech Lead

Take complete technical ownership of the Discovery team's services, ensuring conversational search and content intelligence pipelines are scalable, highly available, and structurally sound. Design resilient, decoupled distributed systems using event-driven architectures with clean API boundaries and robust fault tolerance. Champion DevSecOps practices by embedding automated security scanning, vulnerability management, and strict IAM principles. Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines, driving automated testing, seamless deployment strategies, and infrastructure reproducibility. Act as the financial guardian of the domain, monitoring and optimizing total AWS infrastructure spend across compute, storage, search indexes, and LLM usage. Provide technical steering for Generative AI and RAG architectures, evaluating tools like AWS Bedrock safely and cost-effectively. Partner with the Engineering Manager to balance new product capabilities with long-term architecture health and technical debt reduction. Collaborate with stakeholders to deconstruct complex concepts, outline system boundaries, write user stories, and map estimates. Stay close to the code by writing clean, resilient backend services using Node.js and TypeScript on AWS. Provide technical mentorship, lead architectural workshops, and run thorough code reviews for both junior and senior engineers.