Technical Lead - Staff Software Developer

Department: Cloud Engineering

Location: India - Resident (0008)

Description

Please Note:
While we are not actively hiring for this role until February 1st, we are currently in the preparation phase and welcome early conversations with our Talent Acquisition team. If you're interested, feel free to apply now — our team will be reviewing submissions and connecting with potential candidates ahead of the formal hiring start date.

Vena Solutions is seeking a Technical Lead - Staff Software Developer who will act as an engineering team leader driving high-quality delivery of product improvements, while staying hands-on and contributing to the codebase for our cloud-native SaaS product. This role is a match for you if you are looking to combine your technical and leadership skills to enable a team of developers and work with them to deliver robust, performant and maintainable software!

How You'll Make an Impact

• Leads day-to-day engineering team operations, ensuring the team is delivering both impactful product improvements as well as improving the quality of the codebase in a sustainable manner
• Acts as the "architect within the team", in collaboration with Software Architects.
• Leads system design for major changes/improvements in alignment with overall software architecture strategy
• Solves the team's toughest technical challenges, enables others to help solve them when possible
• Works with Product Managers to ensure plans/roadmaps are achievable, deliveries are met, and team resource gaps are understood and addressed
• Reviews team epics and projects critically, ensure they’re appropriately broken down and prioritised, and well-understood by the team
• Mentors, coaches, and teaches others in coding best practices in an open and empathetic way, through pairing, code reviews, etc.
• Ensures long-term codebase health and ensure that tech debt issues are properly prioritized in quarterly and Sprint Planning
• Advocates for and executes development initiatives, best practices and coding standards
• May act as a Guild/Chapter Lead to drive broadly impactful functional improvements across the engineering department
  
  

We'd Love to See

• 7+ years of experience in software development
• 1+ year of experience leading a software development team as a Tech Lead (or playing the role informally)
• Foundational understanding of algorithms and computational complexity
• Experience developing in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or equivalent cloud environments
• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline and/or equivalent experience
• Prior experience in a Scrum / Agile environment
• You are self-motivated and self-directed
• You are excited at the prospect of working on interesting technology with other friendly and enthusiastic developers
• You enjoy leading teams and seeing people come together to deliver impactful, performant and delightful software
  

*Our salaries are tailored to roles, levels and locations. Your individual pay within this range is influenced by factors like work location, skills, experience and education. As you progress in your role, your compensation may adapt, offering flexibility for growth beyond initial levels. For specifics, your recruiter will provide details and address any questions during the hiring process.