Technical Lead

PICKLES ASIA SDN. BHD.; Selangor; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Phone allowance

Job summary

PICKLES ASIA SDN. BHD. seeks an experienced tech leader to define the technical vision and roadmap for its tribe. You will model engineering excellence, influence stakeholders, and promote best practices across teams in a distributed environment.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions around TypeScript, cloud, and event-driven systems, and lead efforts to scale core services with a strong focus on security, performance, and maintainability.

Qualifications

• Live and breathe in TypeScript, Cloud technologies and Distributed Systems.
• Experience with domain-driven design and tactical patterns.
• Understand event-driven architectures (SAGA, event sourcing, CQRS, Kafka streaming).
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and RESTful APIs; exploring GraphQL.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision within your tribe/product team and plan its technical roadmap.
• Lead by example and influence product/business stakeholders.
• Champion engineering excellence with coding best practices, deployment practices, maintain healthy code coverage, and secure codebase.
• Write clean, maintainable code and promote best practices (TDD, peer review, design patterns, automated CI).
• Balance fast iteration with technical debt repayment and product iterations.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers.
• Contribute to core codebases and foster an open-source culture internally.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvements, embracing fail-fast principles.
• Mentor engineers and take responsibility for performance and growth.

Skills

TypeScript

Cloud technologies

Distributed Systems

Domain-driven design

Event-driven architectures

CI/CD

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Kafka

Azure

Test Driven Development

SCRUM/LESS

Communication skills

Tools

Kafka

Redis

SQL Server

MongoDB

Job description

• 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. Maintain and 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 you will be doing?

• 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. Maintain and 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 in 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 aswell.
• 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)

We are a well-funded and internationally backed company seeking a detail oriented and experienced team members ideally with a passion for cars.

Our goal is to be the largest vendor of our kind in Southeast Asia and we think there is an incredible opportunity for the right person to lead this area of our business.

We are a well-funded and internationally backed company seeking a detail oriented and experienced team members ideally with a passion for cars.

Our goal is to be the largest vendor of our kind in Southeast Asia and we think there is an incredible opportunity for the right person to lead this area of our business.

Perks and benefits

• Phone allowance will be provided to perform your d