Technical Lead (Remote) - GovCIO

Leadership Responsibilities

• Serve as the day-to-day technical authority for the engineering team as the person engineers turn to for direction, unblocking, and decision-making.
• Drive engineering culture: establish norms around code quality, review practices, documentation, and team communication.
• Own architectural decision-making in partnership with the principal engineer and senior leadership by documenting tradeoffs, building consensus, and driving to resolution.
• Actively mentor engineers across experience levels; invest in individual growth as a core part of the role, not a side responsibility.
• Run or co-run technical ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog refinement, architecture reviews, and retrospectives.
• Translate product and business requirements into clear technical plans the team can execute against.
• Identify and surface technical debt, risk, and blockers proactively before they become incidents.
• Partner closely with the Technical Director, Product, PM, and operations stakeholders as the engineering team's primary technical voice.

Individual Contributor Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and review full stack features across TypeScript/Node.js backend services and React-based frontend.
• Build and evolve event-driven pipelines, task orchestration, and asynchronous workflows.
• Lead integration work with AI/ML and OCR-based document processing partners by defining contracts and ensuring reliability across system boundaries.
• Drive modernization of AWS infrastructure used for current-generation services, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code adoption.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines: reliability, deployment velocity, and observability.
• Enforce security, authentication, and authorization patterns appropriate for regulated environments.
• Diagnose and remediate production issues including performance bottlenecks, data integrity problems, and deployment failures.

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of full stack engineering experience in production systems (or commensurate experience).
• Demonstrated experience formally or informally leading an engineering team with clear ownership of team outcomes, not just individual output.
• Strong TypeScript/Node.js backend development experience.
• Solid frontend experience with React or equivalent modern framework.
• Proven track record designing event-driven or workflow-oriented architectures.
• Solid PostgreSQL skills including schema design, transactional workflows, migrations.
• Hands-on AWS experience across core services (EC2, ECS/ECR/EKS, S3, IAM, SSM).
• Experience owning and improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• Comfortable operating in regulated, high-assurance environments (government, finance, or healthcare).

• Experience integrating with AI/ML APIs, OCR services, or document intelligence platforms.
• Familiarity with modern AWS container and serverless patterns (ECS Fargate, Lambda, Step Functions).
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, CDK, or similar).
• Keycloak or comparable identity/auth platform experience.
• Experience leading teams through a platform modernization or significant technical debt reduction effort.
• Prior experience in a player-coach role—shipping code while owning team-level outcomes simultaneously.

If you are selected to move forward through the process, here’s what you can expect:

• During the Interview Process
• Virtual video interview conducted via video with the hiring manager and/or team Camera must be on A valid photo ID must be presented during each interview

During the Interview Process

• Virtual video interview conducted via video with the hiring manager and/or team
• Camera must be on
• A valid photo ID must be presented during each interview

During the Interview Process Virtual video interview conducted via video with the hiring manager and/or team Camera must be on A valid photo ID must be presented during each interview

• During the Hiring Process
• Enhanced Biometrics ID verification screening Background check, to include: Criminal history (past 7 years) Verification of your highest level of education Verification of your employment history (past 7 years), based on information provided in your application

During the Hiring Process

• Enhanced Biometrics ID verification screening
• Background check, to include:
• Criminal history (past 7 years) Verification of your highest level of education Verification of your employment history (past 7 years), based on information provided in your application

Background check, to include:

• Criminal history (past 7 years)
• Verification of your highest level of education
• Verification of your employment history (past 7 years), based on information provided in your application

At GovCIO, we consistently hear that meaningful work and a collaborative team environment are two of the top reasons our employees enjoy working here. In addition, our employees have access to a range of perks and benefits to support their personal and professional well-being, beyond the standard company offered health benefits, including:

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Corporate Discounts
• Learning & Development platform, to include certification preparation content
• Training, Education and Certification Assistance*
• Referral Bonus Program
• Internal Mobility Program
• Pet Insurance
• Flexible Work Environment