Software Technical Lead

Description We run a multi-tenant automotive SaaS platform used every day by dealership staff and consumers across the United States. We're now in the middle of a significant platform evolution: breaking the legacy monolith into domain-owned microservices, standing up a modern event-driven backbone on AWS, and building production AI agents that take real action inside dealer workflows. That work runs on Tech Leads. A Tech Lead at A2Z Sync is the engineering anchor of a product or platform area: the most senior IC on the team, the person who turns architecture decisions into shipped product, runs design reviews, holds the bar on what gets merged, and owns the outcome when services hit production at 2 AM. You are not a manager. You are the technical leader of a small team of engineers (a mix of US-based and offshore), and the patterns you set become the patterns the team inherits. What you will own: Your areas, end to end: multiple product or platform areas with a team of roughly 3-5 engineers per product across onshore and offshore, covering both the legacy scope still in production and the new services being built or extracted. Service design and delivery: from design doc through dual-write rollout, traffic-splitting, per-tenant feature flags, and clean cutover. You decide where the monolith seams are: which domain comes out next, what its service boundary is, and how the data comes with it. Full-stack application delivery: vertical slices, not layers. Micro-frontend delivery (independently deployable React/Next.js modules, API/BFF contracts, shared design system), microservices (domain-owned, event-driven over EventBridge, independent pipelines), and performance/monitoring (Core Web Vitals, API latency budgets, OpenTelemetry tracing browser to database, CloudWatch dashboards, load baselines before every cutover). AI agent co-delivery: when the AI platform team builds an agent that touches your domain, you own the tool contract on your side: schema, SLA, idempotency, eval fixtures, and guardrails. Team velocity: responsible for the velocity, productivity and quality of engineers working across our agentic harness through loop engineering practices. The patterns the team inherits, cross-team contracts, code and design review cadence, on-call and incident ownership, and mentoring your engineers. Tech environment: Python, Java (Spring Boot), PHP (Laravel), TypeScript/React (Next.js); AWS (Lambda, EventBridge, DynamoDB, ECS Fargate, Aurora, API Gateway, S3, SQS/SNS, Step Functions, CloudWatch); Strands Agents SDK on AWS Bedrock AgentCore, MCP servers, Bedrock Guardrails, Anthropic models; AWS CDK, CloudFormation, CircleCI, OpenTelemetry, Auth0. Skills python, java, typescript, aws, full stack, api, automotive, langchain, dynamodb, telemetry, data pipeline Top Skills Details python,java,typescript,aws,full stack,api Additional Skills & Qualifications Experience shipping production AI/agentic workflows: code-first agent frameworks (Strands Agents, LangGraph, or equivalent) deployed on AWS Bedrock AgentCore, MCP servers, prompt engineering, eval harnesses, guardrails, cost and latency budgets. Or a clear track record of picking up new platforms fast. Micro-frontend architecture experience: module federation or equivalent, independently deployable frontend units, shared design systems. Event-driven architecture experience including event schema versioning and consumer-driven contracts. Multi-tenant SaaS experience: tenant isolation, per-tenant configuration, feature flags as a rollout primitive. Experience working with both onshore and offshore engineers in a single delivery cadence. Nice to have: Automotive, fintech, or marketplace platform experience. OpenTelemetry, CircleCI, AWS CDK, Auth0. Browser automation in production integration flows (e.g., Playwright). Data pipeline experience: Glue, Athena, S3 data lake patterns. Experience Level Intermediate Level Job Type & Location This is a Contract position based out of Greenwood Village, CO. Pay and Benefits The pay range for this position is $70.00 - $95.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) Workplace Type This is a fully remote position. Application Deadline This position is anticipated to close on Sep 14, 2026. About Actalent Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. 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