#136105 - Technical Lead - Full-Stack Production Systems

Lifted (an Upwork Company); Colombia; Remote; COP 388,400,000 - 582,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted (an Upwork Company) seeks a hands-on Technical Lead to support a live, high-traffic production platform. The role combines full-stack engineering, production troubleshooting, deployment ownership, and technical leadership across several interconnected systems.

You will diagnose urgent issues, coordinate engineers, partner with client-facing teams, and drive reliable delivery across multiple concurrent projects. Enterprise experience is strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on Java and Spring Boot experience as a primary backend stack.
• Hands-on Django and Python experience as a secondary backend stack.
• Production frontend-development experience with React.
• Hands-on Kafka experience.
• Hands-on GraphQL experience.
• Strong experience with SQL or MongoDB.
• Build and deployment experience, including personally merging and deploying production code.
• Experience with at least one of Dagster, Data Lakes, or Amazon Athena.
• Demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly and own work across multiple concurrent projects.
• High ownership, initiative, and autonomy without requiring hand-holding.
• Technical leadership experience that includes leading, shepherding, and onboarding engineers.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing or coordinating the work of others.
• Clear and concise communication.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and make sound prioritization decisions.
• Strategic thinking and strong production problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, triage, and resolve production issues affecting live platform activity.
• Debug issues across interconnected backend, frontend, data, and integration systems.
• Partner with client-facing and go-to-market teams to prioritize and address support requests.
• Drive timely issue resolution against established service-level expectations.
• Monitor production systems and respond quickly to alerts and performance degradation.
• Support architecture changes and system integrations that affect platform behavior.
• Maintain application logic as dependencies and upstream systems change.
• Independently own code changes from implementation through merge, deployment, and production validation.
• Lead, shepherd, onboard, and coordinate other engineers while remaining hands-on with delivery.
• Manage ambiguity and prioritize work strategically across concurrent projects.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Django

Python

React

Kafka

GraphQL

SQL

MongoDB

Deployment

Dagster

Data Lakes

Amazon Athena

Tools

Java and Spring Boot

Django

React

Kafka

GraphQL

SQL

MongoDB

Build and deployment tooling

Dagster

Data Lakes

Amazon Athena

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze, triage, and resolve production issues affecting live platform activity.
• Debug issues across interconnected backend, frontend, data, and integration systems.
• Partner with client-facing and go-to-market teams to prioritize and address support requests.
• Drive timely issue resolution against established service-level expectations.
• Monitor production systems and respond quickly to alerts and performance degradation.
• Support architecture changes and system integrations that affect platform behavior.
• Maintain application logic as dependencies and upstream systems change.
• Independently own code changes from implementation through merge, deployment, and production validation.
• Lead, shepherd, onboard, and coordinate other engineers while remaining hands-on with delivery.
• Manage ambiguity and prioritize work strategically across concurrent projects.

Must-Have Skills

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on Java and Spring Boot experience as a primary backend stack.
• Hands-on Django and Python experience as a secondary backend stack.
• Production frontend-development experience with React .
• Hands-on Kafka experience.
• Hands-on GraphQL experience.
• Strong experience with SQL or MongoDB .
• Build and deployment experience, including personally merging and deploying production code.
• Experience with at least one of Dagster, Data Lakes, or Amazon Athena .
• Demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly and own work across multiple concurrent projects.
• High ownership, initiative, and autonomy without requiring hand-holding.
• Technical leadership experience that includes leading, shepherding, and onboarding engineers.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing or coordinating the work of others.
• Clear and concise communication.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and make sound prioritization decisions.
• Strategic thinking and strong production problem-solving skills.
• Ability to use data and system signals to troubleshoot production issues.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Product-management experience partnering with go-to-market teams and engineers on prioritization.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf .

Required Tools & Platforms

• Java and Spring Boot
• Django and Python
• React
• Kafka
• GraphQL
• SQL or MongoDB
• Build and deployment tooling
• At least one of:
  • Dagster
  • Data Lakes
  • Amazon Athena

Location, Time & Engagement

• Candidates must be based in an eligible LATAM location.
• Full US Central Time coverage is required.
• Contract engagement at 40 hours per week .

We are seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to support a live, high-traffic production platform. This role combines full-stack engineering, production troubleshooting, deployment ownership, and technical leadership across several interconnected systems. The Technical Lead will diagnose urgent issues, coordinate engineers, partner with client-facing teams, and drive reliable delivery across multiple concurrent projects. Enterprise experience strongly preferred. Originally posted on Himalayas