Technical Lead (Optimizely/ Next.js)

Company: CourtAvenue

Location: Remote - Latin America

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

CourtAvenue is looking for an experienced Technical Lead to lead a five-person nearshore team delivering a large-scale enterprise website for a US-based client, using Optimizely SaaS CMS, Next.js, and TypeScript.

This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical delivery, team mentorship, and active development. You'll collaborate with a US-based Solution Architect who owns the overall architecture, while taking ownership of its implementation and day-to-day engineering execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery, code reviews, sprint execution, and engineering best practices across the team.
• Set up and maintain repositories, development environments, branching strategies, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Translate solution architecture into technical tasks, estimates, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and integrate Optimizely CMS, Visual Builder, Optimizely Graph, and Next.js solutions.
• Contribute production code (approximately 40% of the role), primarily focused on back-end development and integrations.
• Implement AI-assisted development workflows, including coding agents, quality controls, security safeguards, and performance metrics.
• Collaborate with US stakeholders on technical decisions, implementation challenges, and recommendations.
• Mentor developers and QA engineers to ensure scalable, high-quality delivery.

Requirements

• 8+ years of web development experience, including 3+ years in technical leadership.
• Hands-on Optimizely CMS experience, ideally SaaS CMS, Visual Builder, and Optimizely Graph. CMS 12 (PaaS) with headless experience is also accepted.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Next.js (App Router, Server Components, caching), and GraphQL.
• Experience with REST APIs, webhooks, third-party integrations, and cloud hosting (Vercel, Azure, or similar).
• Solid knowledge of Git workflows, CI/CD, code quality, accessibility, and performance standards.
• Proven experience implementing AI coding agents (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) in team development workflows.
• Strong technical leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Professional English proficiency and availability for at least 6 hours of daily overlap with US Central Time.

Nice to Have

• Optimizely CMS or Content Graph certifications.
• Design systems, Storybook, and component libraries.
• Legacy CMS migrations or experience with other headless CMS platforms (Contentful, Sanity, Contentstack).