Technical Lead

Pickles Auctions; Selangor; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic tech firm in Malaysia is seeking a Technical Lead to define the technical vision and roadmap within the product team. The ideal candidate will champion engineering excellence, lead by example, and be well-versed in Typescript, Cloud technologies, and distributed systems. You will be responsible for mentoring engineers and fostering innovation within the team. This role offers the opportunity to work in a multi-national environment and make impactful decisions across the organization.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in domain-driven design, especially tactical patterns.
• Deep understanding of event-driven architectures such as SAGA, event sourcing, CQRS, or Kafka streaming.
• Hands-on experience with building distributed tracing and logging.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision within your product team and plan the technical roadmap.
• Be an inspiring role model and lead your technical team.
• Champion engineering excellence and maintain code quality.

Skills

Typescript

Cloud technologies

Distributed Systems

Domain-driven design

Event-driven architectures

RESTful APIs

CI/CD pipelines

Microservices

Problem solving

Agile methodologies

Communication skills

Tools

SQL Server

Mongo DB

Redis

Kafka

Azure

Job description

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision within your tribe/product team and plan its technical roadmap.
• Be an inspiring role model for your technical team members. Lead by example and influence product/business stakeholders.
• Be the champion of engineering excellence – coding best practices, deployment best practices, maintain healthy code coverage, keep the codebase clean for better maintainability and security.
• Write clean, maintainable code. Practice and influence team to adopt best practices for writing software – TDD, peer coding/review, design patterns, automated CI, etc.
• Maintain a balance of iterating faster vs accruing technical debts. Be responsible for technical debts – plan for paying them back along with better product iterations.
• Strong leadership skills – influence teams without authority, collaborate with other teams efficiently.
• Contribute to other codebases or core application frameworks – maintain a healthy open‑source culture internally in Pickles engineering.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvements in teams: fail fast, fail often.
• Provide mentorship to engineers in your team. Be responsible for their performance and growth.

What will it take to be successful in this role?

• You live and breathe Typescript, Cloud technologies and Distributed Systems.
• Strong experience in domain‑driven design especially tactical patterns.
• Deep understanding of event‑driven architectures with at least one of the following patterns: SAGA, event sourcing, CQRS, Kafka streaming.
• You know what CI/CD pipelines are and how to build them.
• You love RESTful APIs and you are exploring GraphQL as well.
• Experience in designing and building databases that support microservices with technologies such as SQL Server, Mongo DB as well as implementing caching with tools such as Redis.
• Understanding cloud technologies – Azure cloud experience is a plus.
• Experience in Test Driven Development.
• Familiar with highly scalable and distributed systems.
• Proven track record of building, maintaining and scaling event‑driven systems. Experience with Kafka is a plus.
• Exposure to security technologies such as SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, key vaults.
• Hands‑on experience with building distributed tracing and logging.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Proven experience working in a multi‑national environment with agile methodologies (SCRUM, LESS).
• Life‑long learner mindset, with avid attention to new technology stacks, tooling and engineering trends.
• Awesome written and oral communication skills with the ability to talk to different stakeholders (technical and non‑technical).

Kindly submit your application to ***************@pickles.com.au