Technical Lead

T2 Systems • Burnaby, BC

2h

About The Position

The Technical Lead – Software Delivery provides hands-on technical leadership for an enterprise application platform, owning solution design and delivery execution while ensuring engineering quality and consistency across the team. This role is 70% designing and implementing and 30% coaching and mentoring, with accountability for development standards, delivery practices, and overall software quality.

Requirements

• Strong experience building and delivering enterprise applications using Java
• Configuring and optimizing performance of java web containers
• Kafka (event streaming concepts, producers/consumers, reliability patterns)
• Redis (caching strategies, TTLs, data modeling, performance considerations)
• Strong relational database experience with MySQL (schema design, indexing, transactions, performance tuning)
• Observability/APM experience (monitoring, tracing, logging, alerting, production diagnostics)
• Experience designing and building REST APIs
• Experience with distributed systems / microservice architectures and integration troubleshooting
• CI/CD and Release Engineering (Required)
• Experience designing and creating Azure CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying enterprise applications
• Familiarity with release management practices including gated approvals, environment promotion, rollback strategy, and deployment validation
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent professional experience
• 7+ years of professional Java development experience
• 3+ years in a technical leadership capacity (technical lead, lead developer, engineering lead), including coaching and mentoring responsibilities
• Demonstrated success delivering complex projects end-to-end and improving software quality outcomes
• Strong communication skills: able to explain technical concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong prioritization and planning skills across multiple workstreams (features, tech debt, reliability)
• Comfortable setting standards and holding the bar through coaching and accountability
• Bias for automation, continuous improvement, and pragmatic delivery

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design and implementation for platform features, integrations, and services
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical designs and delivery plans
• Drive the full software development lifecycle: requirements, design, build, test, release, and production support
• Establish technical direction and ensure alignment to architecture and engineering standards
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex production issues and cross-system integrations
• Development and maintain enterprise-wide shared services.
• Ensure operational readiness through observability, runbooks, release validation, and incident learnings
• Maintain clear and current technical documentation (architecture, operational procedures, engineering practices)
• Coach engineers through pairing, design reviews, and structured feedback to raise technical capability and consistency
• Enforces engineering practices and quality standards, and ensure adoption through mentorship and accountability
• Guide work planning practices (estimation, sequencing, risk management) to improve predictability and delivery outcomes
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and ownership
• Provide performance management feedback with the team.
• Enforce engineering quality standards including: coding standards and review expectations, automated testing strategy (unit/integration/API/regression), release readiness criteria and “definition of done”, effective and efficient pull request management
• Drive defect prevention practices and continuous improvement using metrics and post-incident learnings
• Ensure consistent technical decision documentation and transparent engineering communication

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior