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Job Description 

As a Tech Lead Engineer, you are a senior technical leader responsible for driving the successful execution of Elite's product and platform roadmap. You combine deep hands-on engineering expertise with strong technical leadership, guiding architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high standards across the software development lifecycle. 

You will lead complex technical initiatives end-to-end, partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership, and serve as a role model for engineering excellence. This role requires someone who is execution-oriented, quality-driven, and passionate about building scalable, secure, cloud-native SaaS solutions in a high-performing environment.

Work Arrangement: Remote 

This role requires the individual to be based in Flexible across U.S. time zones. 

What You'll Do:  

• Provide technical leadership for complex, high-impact initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with product and business objectives.
• Lead system and component-level architecture design in partnership with engineers and architects.
• Own end-to-end technical execution for key projects, from design through delivery, proactively managing risks and dependencies.
• Translate high-level designs into well-scoped tasks, estimates, and implementation plans.
• Design, implement, and evolve cloud-native architectures using modern patterns (microservices, event-driven systems, API-first design), technologies and tools.
• Set and enforce high engineering standards through code reviews, CI/CD, testing, TDD, observability, and DevOps practices.
• Build, prioritize, and manage technical debt and drive performance, scalability, and reliability improvements using data-driven insights.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering strong engineering judgment, collaboration, ownership, continuous learning and skill development.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, UX, QA, Security, and Infrastructure teams to deliver solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Clearly communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support alignment between product priorities and technical execution, ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery.
• Remain deeply hands-on, contributing with high-quality, production-ready code for critical components and complex problem areas.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, applying strong diagnostic and problem-solving skills.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt modern technologies and tools that improve system reliability and team effectiveness.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support departmental and company objectives. 

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related STEM field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of professional software development experience building complex, scalable business applications.
• Expert-level proficiency in the Microsoft stack, including C# / .NET Core and Angular.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure cloud services, including Durable Functions, App Services, Event Hubs, API Management, Azure AD, Key Vault, Blob Storage, AKS, and Service Fabric.
• Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems, microservices, and RESTful APIs (including ODATA).
• Deep experience with CI/CD pipelines (YAML), Git, Azure DevOps or GitHub, and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong database experience with SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Cosmos DB, including performance tuning and scalability.
• Vast experience with automated testing frameworks, TDD, and quality-driven development practices.
• Excellent familiarity with a variety of automation concepts - unit, integration, end to end testing, as well as enforcement of testing best practices for full stack applications. 
• Familiarity with ERP, financial, or mission-critical SaaS platforms is a strong plus.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a pragmatic, data-driven approach.
• Strong communication and influence skills, with the ability to lead through expertise rather than authority.
• A continuous improvement mindset with a demonstrated commitment to engineering excellence and professional growth.
• Ability to travel up <10% as business needs require
• Role requires the following physical capacity: Sedentary: primarily desk/computer work 
• Must be legally authorized to work in United States; Elite does not provide employment sponsorship for this position 

Benefits:

• Competitive Compensation Package ($180,000-200,000 base salary + variable component)
• Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage (Health, Dental, Vision)
• Retirement Savings Plan with an Employer Contribution
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Time Off
• Wellness Initiatives
• Employee Assistance Program
• Generous Global Parental Leave
• Calm, free premium subscription
• Employee Discount Program

Elite may use technology, including artificial intelligence-enabled tools, to assist in aspects of the recruiting and employment process. These tools are used to support, but not replace, human decision-making.