Tech Lead - MERN Stack

The Senior Engineer / Tech Lead is the hands-on anchor of a delivery pod. You will take a defined problem, design the approach, write most of the tricky code yourself, review the rest, and lead 2-4 engineers through sprint cycles. You will deploy and operate what you build. You will also step into customer demos and working sessions when needed. This is a visibly high-ownership role; you and the solution architect will be the engineering face of the BU on delivery. Over 2-3 years, strong performers in this role grow into solution architects or engagement leads.

Responsibilities:

• Own delivery of a client project or product module from design through production architecture, implementation, deployment, and support.
• Hands-on coding across the full stack: React/Node, Python, SQL, REST APIs, and Azure.
• At least 60% of your time is heads-down building.
• Lead a small pod of 2-4 engineers in sprint planning, daily standups, code reviews, pairing, and unblocking.
• Deploy and operate apps on the Pierian App Store, PM2 Nginx, centralised SSO, and the observability baseline.
• Debug production issues, customer-reported bugs, and data problems calmly and with a written root cause at the end.
• Pair with the solution architect on new builds, pick up patterns and feed improvements back.
• Join customer demos and working sessions alongside the consultant/architect; you should be able to run a technical demo solo for routine asks.
• Enforce and improve engineering hygiene in your pod branch strategy, PR quality, test coverage, and release discipline.
• Mentor 1-2 junior engineers through structured pairing and regular 1:1s.

Requirements:

• 6-8 years of full-stack engineering experience, with at least 2 years leading a small team or owning a non-trivial module end-to-end.
• Strong in at least one of Node.js / Python, plus React on the front end. SQL fluency is non-negotiable.
• Experience deploying and operating applications in Linux, PM2 Nginx, Docker, environment management, and basic monitoring.
• Hands-on usage of AI coding tools Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor every day, with examples to show.
• Experience integrating with enterprise systems through APIs, SaaS platforms, ERPs, or internal services, including handling authentication, pagination, retries, and schema drift.
• Good written communication PR descriptions, design notes, and customer-facing bug responses should be clear without a rewrite.
• Planning discipline can size work, commit to a sprint, and deliver against it without constant reprioritisation.
• Calm under pressure and comfortable with production incidents and customer escalations.

Good to Have:

• Experience with LLM integration, prompt engineering, RAG, function/tool calling, or building a Claude skill / MCP server.
• Experience with Kissflow, Zoho Qntrl, Power Automate, or another workflow/BPM platform.
• Experience with document AI, OCR, or computer vision use cases.
• Experience with Azure (Functions, App Service, AI Search, Fabric) or AWS (Lambda, ECS, RDS).
• Open-source contributions, a personal project, or a technical blog that shows how you think.